12/7/41

[wierdscience]

Anybody know what happend on this date?

[freddycougar]

my guess .. Pearl Harbour

[wierdscience]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by freddycougar:
my guess .. Pearl Harbour</font>

Yes,we have a winner!

Reason I asked is several people I asked today didn't know,people are starting to forget,if they ever knew

[gizmo2]

My father-in-law was a Marine on the Arizona. Yup, that date rings a bell. He was just coming on duty, half way up the conning tower (I think that's right) when the deck exploded. He dove off, came up through the flames on the water and was burned pretty badly. Spent 14 months in the infirmary, mad as hell he wasn't able to go fight. Only 13 marines from the Arizona survived that day.

[sauer38h]

A few years ago I was making up a bumper sticker for my Toyota, taking as inspiration a common bumper sticker around these parts, "This Car Climbed Mt. Washington" (Mt Washington passes for a mountain back East). Mine was going to be "This Car Climbed Mt Niitaka", a reference to Toyota's success in the US. "Climb Mt. Niitaka" was the code radioed from Japan to Nagumo's fleet, to proceed with the Pearl Harbor attack.

All right, so it's not a knee-slapper, but it's not a bad joke. But only one person I mentioned it to knew what I was talking about.

Phooey, people don't know jack nowadays.

[jr45acp]

Weird, don't despair, there are still some patriots left in our country. For those who lost their lives on that horrible day, may their souls rest in peace.

John B

[Norman Atkinson]

It may have been a horrible day, it may have been everything which you say- but!!!!!

For the people in Occupied Europe under the Nazi yoke and for a little 11 year old boy, it was the greatest Christmas present ever.

Few of you will have lived through the days prior to that momentous day. The terror of war didn't go away, the boys in Air Force blue came back to see us- just the once- and no more. The 8000lbs of explosives and incendiaries still tumbled out of the skies to reduce our cities, towns, villages and homes to ashes and rubble. The telegrams still arrived which said "The Royal Air Force regrets to inform you that Flying Officer or Flight Sergeant So and So is missing and is presumed to hasve been killed in action.
No, it didn't stop the bloodshed. Even that Victory that hid around around the corner for many more years didn't end it.
Pearl Harbor and the many thousands of deaths which followed, didn't stop the slaughter of brave people.
It did bring hope to people who would not have survived- had not those torpedo bombers hit Pearl.

Historians may have different ideas but they are entitled to that.
Those American boys on Pearl on that Sunday morning gave me my life. On that, I have no doubts.

Norman

[Your Old Dog]

How times have changed.

On Dec 7th some fools in planes attacked our Navy and we answered back. We ended it with a haymaker.

On Sept 11th some fools in planes attacked our civilians and according to many in this country, we are trying to figure out what we should do. The media, in their infinite wisdom is helping conduct the war in the court of public opinion along with a lot of folks who ain't got the guts to fight back.

God bless the victims of both dark days in our history. May he give our weak amoungst us the courage to do what has to be done for all of humanitys sake.

[tws63]

I got married on this day so i wouldnt forget my anniversary......Crap....I forgot again.

[Al Messer]

My family was in the country at my Grand-parents' house. The batteries were dead on their old Silvertone radio, so it was several days later when we got back home that we heard the news. Don't know how long it was before Granddad heard about it, I suspect it was when he went to town later that week.

One of my neighbors' Grandfather was on the beach when the attack began and he swam out to his ship and never set foot on land for another threee years.