Posted on 12/06/2008 1:53:14 PM PST by Dubya
DECEMBER 7th, 1941 : DECEMBER 7th, 2008 = 67 YEARS
JAPAN DECLARED WAR ON AMERICA
Flags at half-staff for Pearl Harbor Day
Flags should be flown at half-staff Sunday, National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, in respect for the victims of Pearl Harbor. DECEMBER 7th, 1941 : DECEMBER 7th, 2008 = 67 YEARS
JAPAN DECLARED WAR ON AMERICA
Flags at half-staff for Pearl Harbor Day
Flags should be flown at half-staff Sunday, National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, in respect for the victims of Pearl Harbor.
United States flag should be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset Sunday.
This year is the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
Half Staff Alert Sunday December 7th is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. On this day, flags on all federal buildings will be displayed at half staff from sun up to sun down. Many companies and private citizens also take part in this display honoring the veterans and those who died in the attack. United States flag should be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset Sunday.
This year is the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
Half Staff Alert Sunday December 7th is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. On this day, flags on all federal buildings will be displayed at half staff from sun up to sun down. Many companies and private citizens also take part in this display honoring the veterans and those who died in the attack.
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Any other FReepers have relatives on board USS Arizona? My cousin Jesse Silvey, MM2C, still on watch in the engine room.
67 Years Ago. And I still remember a great deal of what went down that day. I was five years old,going on six.
Pretty hard to forget that Sunday Morning.
And I know there are fewer,and fewer of us who do remember.
The colors will be at Half Staff come Sun Up tomorrow.
I was born four days later. My grandson will be 16 this Sunday.
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Are you referring to ‘East Wind, Rain’ by Cohen? If so, what was your dad’s name? I have two copies...
In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo, the battleship USS Arizona belches smoke as it topples over into the sea during a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. With an eye on the immediate aftermath of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, thousands of World War II veterans and other observers are expected on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008 to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the devastating Japanese military raid.
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I visited the USS Arizona several years ago. I stood over your cousin at some point.
God bless him.
日本＊ピング＊ (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)
Happy Birthday!!!!.....I was born two weeks before on 22 Nov 41..........
Salute to all who served, so many who died, in Pearl Harbor and now somehow, our most bitter enemies are friends.
Pearl Harbor just killed so many others in the Philippines...Midway, so many other places, God Bless the men dying now at about 2,000 a day.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said: “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant.”
I was just outside gazing at snow white Mount Waita over Oita way , and thinking to myself ...That CT Yankee I , 67 years after PH , am now teaching in Japan ; am married to a Japanese woman ; and own a house here . If I’d been 20 years old in 1944-45 and peacefully walked around this tiny hamlet in the Kumamoto hinterland I would not have lasted long . Some old lady with a pointed stick would have jabbed me through the heart with it .
I remember that day well. I was about fifteen and we all gathered around the radio listening to FDR speech. My Dad and my uncles were World War I veterans and they remembered how terrible World War I was and they knew what was coming and we all sat there silently after FDR finished speaking. I enlisted along with my friends as soon as we were old enough. Then for several years until Aug 9, 1945, we expected to be at war for many years. And the people and the media were 100% behind the war. We thought the war would never end, but we all knew we would be victorious in the end. Our male teachers in high school that were young enough enlisted right away, and we had an assembly at school to say goodbye to them.
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