12-06-2014, 23:50
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"This is no joke: This is War" 7 December 1941
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12-07-2014, 05:07
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Pearl Harbor memories live for survivor
Pearl Harbor memories live for survivor
http://www.fayobserver.com/news/loca...46217eed2.html
"Edd Clay had grown up a North Carolina farm boy. And the 22-year-old sailor knew that the boiling black clouds he spotted over the railing of the USS Minneapolis as it rounded Diamond Head were not just from some pineapple farmer burning off his fields..."
Getting to be fewer of the survivors each year.
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12-07-2014, 10:44
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A day which will live in infamy.
I had an uncle who survived the Bataan Death March and came home from the war.
Truly the greatest generation.
TR
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12-07-2014, 16:09
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I had the honor of visiting and paying my respects at the Arizona and Utah a few months back, anyone that has never been I highly recommend making the trip. Pearl Harbor is a strange place to visit, it will both infuriate and humble you all at the same time. My Cousin's office still has bullet holes in it from the battle, makes things sink in real deep.
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12-06-2016, 21:01
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75th Anniversary
Remembering those who gave all on this solemn day of remembrance.
Seventy Five years ago today we chose a path that would change the world forever. Let's not let them down. Forgive but never forget.
RIP to all who gave all for a better world.
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12-06-2016, 23:45
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Well said
Well said - they are remembered.
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12-07-2016, 00:30
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An event that truly brought our nation together and an event that required sacrifice from all our citizens. We should never forget.
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12-07-2016, 00:59
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cbtengr
An event that truly brought our nation together and an event that required sacrifice from all our citizens. We should never forget.
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One would think that there was another similar event that would bring the entire nation together and demand a similar sense of sacrifice. But alas, there wasn't. Truly they were the greatest generation.
My first wife's grandfather was a glider pilot in WWII. Flew more than one mission and returned home at the end of the war. Amazing stories.
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12-07-2016, 03:11
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May you Warriors continue to rest in peace and know that you have not been forgotten!
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12-07-2016, 04:11
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One of the neighbors was at Hickam Field on December 7th, 1941 and died just a few years ago at 92 years of age. His stories were better than any of shows I've watched over the years.
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12-07-2016, 04:14
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One of my grandfather's was at Dunkirk. My other guarded German prisoners stateside as he was oldest son already with a child.
My wife's grandfather was a Japanese POW - I never met him but she said he never spoke of the war.
Great men all.
Honor and remember.
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12-07-2016, 07:59
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I heard a retired Navy guy say once that the military (Army I believe) delivered some sort of radar array to the island 4 days(?) before the attack but couldn't get permission to put it up due to some sort of conservation agreement. I've not seen or heard this from anyone else since. Is there any truth to this?
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12-07-2016, 09:08
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I heard a retired Navy guy say once that the military (Army I believe) delivered some sort of radar array to the island 4 days(?) before the attack but couldn't get permission to put it up due to some sort of conservation agreement. I've not seen or heard this from anyone else since. Is there any truth to this?
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Yep.
http://worldwar2headquarters.com/HTM...lds/radar.html
Pat
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12-07-2016, 09:16
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hand
I heard a retired Navy guy say once that the military (Army I believe) delivered some sort of radar array to the island 4 days(?) before the attack but couldn't get permission to put it up due to some sort of conservation agreement. I've not seen or heard this from anyone else since. Is there any truth to this?
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The US Army did have radar.
Here is a story from one of the men there that day.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-p...203-story.html
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12-07-2016, 09:36
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Some former shipmates of mine were stationed there and worked in the hangers which still had bullet marks on them. They genuinely didn't have words to express how it felt to just stand in those hangers knowing what those marks on the buildings meant......
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