[harpygoddess]

I realize that Pearl Harbor is a significant and serious event, but the included reenactment by Monty Python is a hoot, and much too good to pass up.

[equaviator]

Unfortunately, the Monty Python video was not posted separately.

Fortunately, we can remember Pearl Harbor in our own way. Especially those of us who are old enough to have been remembering it for 74 years now.

[skeeter]

There is part of this nation that will never forget.

The rest, who cares what they think.

[ShadowAce]

The only bright spots were the absence of the three U.S. aircraft carriers from Pearl Harbor that day and the strange failure of the Japanese to destroy the Pacific Fleet's enormous fuel supplies, which would have been an easy target.

There is the argument that the attack is what allowed the US to win the Pacific war. If the Japanese had not attacked PH, but merely declared war, we would have entered the Pacific war with old, semi-maintained, and obsolete warships. We would not have performed as well.

Because we were forced (by the attack) to replace our warships, we had newer and deadlier ships with which to fight.

[equaviator]

In Remembrance



With solid determination

[TRY ONE]

Many may not know that the local weatherman in Pearl Harbor had warned everyone of a pending attack the night before!

The weatherman said: “There's a little Nip in the air tonight” :-)