December 7, 1941

A date which will live in infamy...

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Ever since visiting Pearl Harbor a very long time ago, Dec 7 has always knotted up my stomach big time. It's worse now that so much video is available.

 

My parents talked about what that day was like on rare occasions. Dad married Mom and enlisted in the Navy within 3 months. The world changed for everyone.

 

My paw paw was seventeen when he enlisted in the Navy in nineteen forty-four. My mother told me that he ended up pulling some kind of "salvage" duty - not pretty stuff, apparently.

 

Don't forget about the Japanese Americans who were sent to concentration camps.

 

on Dec 7th?

 

Yeah, I'll never forget that day when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

 

My father was celebrating his first birthday when the bombing happened.

DD

 

I remembered it like it was yesterday. Ben Affleck off to war, separates from Jennifer Garner.

 

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I struggle significantly with this date.

Not that remembering what happened isn't right. Not that it wasn't a horrific act. But the acts that followed from the US side were the worst in world history and way over board.

 

I guess you are referring to the Atom bombs?

I prefer not to judge as I was not there, in that climate etc.

DD

 

no doofus, I'm talking about the ben affleck movie, duh.........

kidding of course, but yes that is what I was referencing and as a WWII war buff, it's hard not to judge.

 

THAT was the worst in world history? Not the MILLIONS who were exterminated by Germany?? Not the MILLIONS of his own citizens killed by Stalin??

I'm gonna stop right there.

This thread is about Pearl Harbor remembrance.

 

Sorry I quoted you there, DaDa. My mistake.

 

excuse me for not putting in the qualifier "some"

as in some the worst atrocities in history. If you're still struggling there. Read some history books on WWII.

 

And had their land stolen out from under them, while Americans of every kind were sent on death marches.

 

For any of you who have not visited the Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, TX, I cannot recommend it highly enough. It is an amazing, moving, and educational experience. It does not start with Pearl Harbor. It starts with all the processes that led to Pearl Harbor, then includes the attack, and each month of the Pacific war from there. Incredible.