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Sorry. I reply all the time but rarely post. Let me try again. If I fail to get the YouTube link, will a FRiend help me out? Thanks
For those that care, the “google doodle” does not recognize the significance of the day.
To my late Uncle Bill, Army Air Corp mechanic, Wheeler Field.
My Uncle Bill had wanted to be a pilot but got his knee shot out that morning and spent quite a long period recovering.
He ended up becoming a combat engineer in Patton’s Third Army. He was wounded again evacuating St. Vith during The Battle of The Bulge but made it home.
A date which will live in infamy....
Good post. Thank you.
Our friend Lou Conter
And of course, Google’s daily “doodle” or whatever they call it, makes no reference to Pearl Harbor Day. Instead, it is about “Seasonal Holidays 2022”. Can’t mention Christmas or anything, either.
A hot headed working companion was in the Navy and visiting the memorial back around 1969.
A Japanese couple visiting asked him where the Arizona was. He went over to the edge of the memorial and pointed down...
‘RIGHT THERE WHERE YOU PUT IT YOU M**********RS!”
I was there in 1969 and saw lots of Japanese fighter bombers flying around as they were filming the movie TORA TORA TORA at that time.
It is weird to go by the airport and see lots of Japanese fighters coming in for a landing.
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I would highly recommend visiting the memorial. Arrive early, as its large visitor center is generally filled with people whenever it and the memorial are open.
Enjoyable video. Thanks for posting.
I’ve seen this before, thanks for posting it every year. Just curious - What’s your son doing these days?
The youngest participant of the Pearl Harbor invasion would be 99 years old.
The youngest World War II veteran would be 94. I just found this from a website promoting a Word War II museum.
“according to US Department of Veterans Affairs statistics, 167,284 of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II are alive in 2022.”
This website also has a graphic listing the number of living veterans by state.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/wwii-veteran-statistics
BTTT for Pearl Harbor Day. Thank you for the video.
Get the horns:
I missed this post in Dec. Most of the comments seem to be memories of parents or grandparents.
That event changed my life. On Dec 7, l941 or perhaps Dec 8th.I was at my grandparent’s farm. I was sitting with my grandfather’s sitting on his lap, when I heard this: “On Sunday, December 7, 1941, A day that will live in infamy. the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in the Territory of Hawaii was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service aircraft in a surprise military strike,” I had just turned 8 yrs old on Dec 3, 1941. From my Grandfather’s response to that radio announcement by President Roosevelt. I can still remember his anger and his predictions of what was coming.
I don’t think he ever realized how much that changed my life. Short version: My family was moved (literally) from the deep wilds of Tennessee to the “war center” at Huntsville, Ala. Both parents assigned to war “work” and we children saw a city, electricity and indoor plumbing for the first time. Our food was rationed though. So we raised Rabbits in the back yard for meat. Our uncles went overseas.
Ask me about the coming war. Be ready people.
Reading Descent Into Darkness.What a story.
my uncle was on Vestal moored alongside Arizona....