Yes! A day that will live in infamy!
Posted on 12/07/2015 9:00:24 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Cynthia Simison has written a first rate story of Pearl Harbor, gathering information from two 93 yr old survivors of the Japanese attack. CiR has reprinted a portion of Ms Simison’s article and included a link to the remainder. Read and remember the events of this deadly day in America’s history as related by men who lived it. There can be no better lesson in the importance of anticipating the villainy of our enemies rather than reacting to it.
“Remember Pearl Harbor. Keep America alert.â€
For a generation of Americans, they were words by which they, and their children, lived. When Robert A. Greenleaf took a break from a run, stopping at a water fountain one afternoon back in the 1980s, he asked some teen-aged athletes at Westfield High School what they knew about Pearl Harbor.
Their answer: “Who was she?â€
No words were spoken to Joseph A. Mieleszko by the people in a supermarket parking lot who stopped when they noticed the Pearl Harbor Survivor license plate on his car and then looked at him.
“They walked away. It meant nothing to them at all,†he remembers. “Maybe they didn’t know what it was all about. I can’t blame them (for not knowing).â€
That license plate, bearing the number 1, is now on the walker that Mieleszko uses to swiftly navigate the corridors at the Soldiers Home in Holyoke.
Both men are 93 years old.
Greenleaf, who retired from a successful career in the firearms industry at Savage Arms and as a consultant, still lives independently in the modest ranch home that he and his wife bought when they settled in Westfield more than 50 years ago.
Mieleszko, who ran his own electronics business, left his family home in North Hatfield recently...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
There are still a few.
Just watched Tora Tora Tora a documentary on Pearl Harbor.
Remarkable.
American’s don’t even remember 9/11, and most of them were alive for that!
Yes! A day that will live in infamy!
I was a little worried that the local Pearl Harbor survivor wasn’t on the front page of the paper today, as per usual. But I looked it up and he was in the paper 2 days ago, 94 years old.
Certainly todays kids don’t. My Father was there having breakfast at Schofield Barracks. Then he was in Korea, then 2 tours in Vietnam. Died in 2005 and is buried at Arlington National. He never knew a decade without a major conflict until 1968 when he retired after 28 years.
White House then, “cowardly and maliciously attacked...a day that will live in infamy”.
If it were today, “too soon to speculate on the nature of the attack, ...we need to come to an understanding of the long history of our nation’s actions that provoked a peaceful Japan into this action...we need sensible gun laws to prevent future events...entering a treaty that lets Japan keep the Philippines and the other territories they have seized isn’t a surrender to fascism; what would you want instead, a long war with lots of causalities just to engage in ethnocentrism and force our parochial ideas of freedom on half the world?”
I remember sitting on the upstairs stair case listening to the radio along with the rest of the family. I was 11 years old and had 2 brothers on their way to Pearl Harbor on two different ships, they got lucky, missed it by a day or so. I had 3 brothers in the Navy and 2 of us in the Marine Corps, I was to young but made it to the Korean War in the Marine Corps, Oh boy, that was a long time ago.
They aren't being raised right. Even my little seven-year-old bro knows that one.
My Father was there having breakfast at Schofield Barracks.
Must freaked the heck out of him. Sure was a surprise.
Nice photoshop....lol
Yes, nice photoshop. Now to have a photo of the Graf Zepplin uncompleted aircraft carrier launching them.
My favorite ‘movie mistake’ has been the stock footage of the strafing of Wheeler Field and/or Pearl Harbor and then it cuts to a flight of 3 SBDs aka Dauntless Dive Bombers, diving down and then cut to the USS Arizona blowing up. I satirically used that clip from John Fords Dec 7 movie as “proof” that the US Navy actually attacked Pearl Harbor and FDR blamed it on the Japanese, especially to PH conspiracy folks.
Many do. I am one of them. But if the corrupt and politically correct education system is not recharged to start teaching the true and real story of America it will soon become just another 3rd world nation.
“Fox & Friends” had on Pearl Harbor survivor Alex Horanzy, 93, this morning. He was selected for an award by Dickies. He was one of five brothers who served (he and two others in the Army, two in the Navy). One of his brothers was killed in Okinawa. Sharp as a tack. Showed a Japanese flag which he retrieved from a plane that was shot down during the attack.
A majority of Americans have forgotten 9/11
December 7th will be forgotten as Boomers drop dead.
I weep for America.
September 11, 2001 was a repeat event. The U.S. response was quite different.
I was ten years old at the time. I do vividly remember the news coming over the radio about the attack. It made a big impression on me at the time. Until then, the war had been in Europe. The paper were full of news about Britain and Germany. The only American involvement had been the loss of the destroyer Reuben James, on convoy patrol in the Atlantic, and even that was played down. I barely noticed President Roosevelt's speech about it.
Pearl Harbor meant we were "in it now." The draft. Ration coupons for meat, gasoline, sugar, and other things. Shortages of things like tires. Speed limits to conserve gasoline. We raised rabbits to supplement our meat rations. As the oldest child, it fell to me to butcher them.
Dad was drafted into the Navy in 1944. In August of 1945 he was at the amphibious base at San Diego. He would have been part of a landing craft crew for the invasion of Japan. The atomic bomb saved my Dad's life.
Oh, yes, I remember Pearl Harbor.
I was nine years old,having dinner it my aunt’s house.
I had a nine year old cousin.
When the news hit and all of the adults were talking about war we kids were TERRIFIED that Christmas would be cancelled.
The innocence of childhood.
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