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We remember and honor those killed on December 7. Thousands of senior officers, civilians, and teenage boys in dungarees and dixie cups were killed on that Sunday morning. They were the first Americans to die in World War II, some while fighting back, and many others who never had that chance. But the men who survived that attack did fight back. They were among the 16 million men and women who defended America in uniform, all of whom did so because of Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor Day and the events that followed remind us of how truly good America can be. We can be tough, valorous, indefatigable, compassionate and forgiving. Reflecting on these qualities raises the question of whether we can do that today. It’s an honest question given that we, as a nation, can’t even agree on whether it’s okay to murder a corporate CEO on a Manhattan street, or imprison a good Samaritan for coming to the aid of New York City subway commuters. More
All because FDR promised and delivered a world war into the laps of his crony-capitalist friends in the arms and banking sectors by blockading Japan and sending fighter planes into China to wage war against Japan. Nothing about Pearl Harbor was a “surprise attack” and nothing about what happened was not CALCULATED on the part of FDR or his puppetmasters. Praise the victims as they should be praised, but don’t EVER forget how we got there or why its important to question EVERYTHING when war and mass deaths are the outcome of decisions.
First post on today I have seen.
I watched the sun rise again this year.
It was the last time Americans came together as one. Those who went to fight the enemy were supported by their fellows here at home. They suffered with their losses and celebrated with their victories. Our society has become so focused on self it could never happen again. Thank Almighty God America was up to the challenge.
According to the news I saw earlier today there are only 16 survivors left from the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7,1941 and they’re all over 101 years old. Within the next 5 years all the World War 2 veterans (out of 16 million WW 2 vets) will have passed away and no one but the baby boomers who are their children will remember them and that’s a crying shame.
The article forgets all the guys in Army khaki at Schofield, Hickam, Shafter, Haleiwa.
richard, a lot of those “united” were only so because it was the War To Save Communism for them. As soon as the bomb was dropped and the war was won, they went back to being Commies
I believe we were pretty damn united on 9/11. So much so that we let “W” finish his family’s business with Saddam. So much so that we let the Afghanistan war drag on another 10 years after killing bin Laden.
The thing about Pearl Harbor is while the Japanese hoped it would demoralize the nation and have us suing for peace, it kindled determination and inspired that generation to oppose the forces of chaos, death and murder in their world.
Our leaders today have been too focused on sowing discord and mistrust for their own gains (be they political or financial) for us to thing such levels of unity and trust ever existed or could ever exist again. Shame on the exploiters.
Has anyone else seen the ad here asking if Juneteenth should replace July 4 as our national holiday?
HLC on Pearl Harbor attack:
https://youtu.be/QMLmsNgWoJA
(Language alert.)
MrLiberty – None of that excuses what the Japs for what they did to us that day.
Don’t touch my boats!
https://youtu.be/lcJhmm3D3OY
At Dawn We Slept
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1375114.At_Dawn_We_Slept
Answers attempts to revise history.
My wife and I toured the Battleship Missouri and the aviation museum on Ford Island a few months ago. We skipped the area near the Arizona Memorial launch because security in that area has gotten too annoying.
The powers in our government needed something big to get the American people behind world war II.
Not saying the Japanese wouldn’t have attacked eventually they just pushed it at the loss of Americans.
War is hell, but the pay for the elite is great.
Dr. Tar, well said.
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Oh, please! That’s just historical ignorance.
Not to take anything away from the deserved memorialization of the Hawaii dead and wounded, but the first American casualties of WW2 were pilots who crossed the border and fought with the RCAF, and others who were in the three Eagle Squadrons fighting with the RAF. They fought, and some died. This was in 1940 and 1941 before the official entry of the US declaration of war on December 8, 1941.
If anybody wants to claim that these hero pilots didn’t “die in World War 2” because the U.S. hadn’t officially declared war yet, GFY.
Biff Slappenfertz, thanks for the video, GO NAVY and don’t mess with either the US Navy or the Marines unless you want to get your ass kicked. Ask the japs about what we did to them in World War 2. And the damn Houthi pirates in Yemen better learn the same thing quick if they continue to fuck with the Navy and the Marines in the Red Sea. No mercy, no quarter with pirates ever, no matter where they’re from. We win, you lose it’s as simple as that.
GoB – a nation waging war against you for over a year doesn’t justify an attack/response? So how do you justify what the US has done to N. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc….?
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor happened one week before my mother’s twelfth birthday. The family who lived next door to her and her parents lost their son, Jack H. Stevens, when he went down with the USS Arizona. May he rest in peace.