Remembering Pearl Harbor

[crimsonaudio]

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Typical modern idiot - if it weren't for the US he'd have been raised speaking German.

 

[Tidewater]

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Typical modern idiot - if it weren't for the US he'd have been raised speaking German.

I've probably mentioned it before, but it bears repeating.
A French historian wrote a controversial book which explored that in 1940-1945, when the Germans had 600,000 young French men as prisoners of war working in factories in Germany, the birth rate among young French women in occupied France went up 1941-45.
Les Annees Erotiques 1940-1945

 

[Bazza]

Caps off to the greatest generation.....

 

[DzynKingRTR]

 

[gtowntide]

WW2 servicemen and women are dying off so we must never forget them and what they sacrificed. RIP to all that served and died.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Here are my memories of Pearl Harbor. I remember at church that day, there was a buzz after the service that something awful had happened. My parents and I and my two sisters (two brothers who'd later fight had already moved from home) rushed home and sat on the living room in front of the Philco console radio/record changer to listen to the news. I was struggling with understanding it all, operating with a two-year old brain. I did understand that many Americans had died and that the future was uncertain. Over the next several year, we spent a lot of time in front of that radio. My mother was addicted to a commentator named "Gabriel Heatter," whom I detested. The continuing narrative, I've compared to pulling for a losing football team, although my wife says that's banal. So, the first few years of my life, I associate with the family getting down on our knees nightly and praying that the two blue stars hanging in our front window would not be exchanged for gold, then next praying for all the other soldiers fighting. I bedeviled them with specific questions about the exact bombing range of the Germans and why we had to have blackout shades and tape on our headlights, if they couldn't reach us yet. I guess I was a tough kid to raise...

 

[Bazza]

My father's account of the attack on post #35.

Remembering the Greatest Generation......

 

[GrayTide]

83 years ago today, tragic day for America and it changed the world forever. May those who lost their lives that day rest in eternal peace.

 

[Bazza]

84 years ago today........

Love our "Rosies"!

 

[Tidewater]

Morality aside, but strategically that was a catastrophic miscalculation by the Japanese.
Just one measure, but the US produced 102 aircraft carriers of all types (CV, CVL, CVE). The Japanese produced 7 (and those did not last long).
You don't sucker punch someone with that much of an advantage over you.

 

[Padreruf]

My Dad was almost 16 -- and could not enlist even though he was a senior in HS. Had to deliver mail for 2 years before he could enlist in the Navy. Said that day was shock to the US that he had never seen before...

 

[DzynKingRTR]

If you have the means, everyone needs to go. Listen to all the testimonies in the tours.

The only thing is the oblivious people taking selfies in front of the Arizona. Smiling and everything. These people are idiots and don't get that this is a graveyard.

 

[Bazza]

December 7, 1941: A date which will live in infamy.

84 years ago, the attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the United States into World War II, forever changing our Navy and nation. Today we remember the heroism and sacrifice of those lost on that fateful day. Their courage echoes across generations.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1997652388816081109

 

[arthurdawg]

We toured Pearl Harbor on July 4th, 2023. It is an amazing place and memorial.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

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Typical modern idiot - if it weren't for the US he'd have been raised speaking German.

I don't know if you ever thought of this, but if America had lost the Revolutionary War, we'd all be speaking English.

 

[arthurdawg]

Screw that french surrender monkey.

There used to be a parody web page that came up as the old "404 not found" when you searched for "French Military Victories."

Too bad it is gone.

 

[Bamaro]

I just heard that this was the first yearly rememberance that no surviving servicemen were able to attend.

 

[Bazza]

I just heard that this was the first yearly rememberance that no surviving servicemen were able to attend.

The last battle of Midway survivor passed away this year and now there are only 13 Pearl Harbor survivors left.

 

[Bazza]

I just heard that this was the first yearly rememberance that no surviving servicemen were able to attend.

I just found this report which verifies it.........

 

[Crimson1967]

We are probably about 15 years at most away from the last US WWII vet dying. Someone who was 18 when the war ended would be 98 today.