pearl harbor day!

[PKCSPT]

A day to remember. It was a bit before my time but my mom remember sitting around the radio listening to what was happening. I think she was 10, I know she was living in Chicago at the time. Her uncle was stationed in Hawaii at the time. It was days before they heard he has been on shore leave and was ok.

[nevadatear]

My father wasn't there, but he enlisted in the air force the next day. Flew manning the turret guns on b17 as the flight engineer for just a few runs before being shot down over the Adriatic sea six days before Christmas 1942 . He had his own Christmas miracle at being rescued by the allies on Christmas day. I am vey grateful he is still here today at age 90.

[Kurt (Indiana)]

It's becoming way too easy to forget days like this. The effort and sacrifice that took place as a result changed the world forever.

Thanks for remind us.

[Kody]

The Pearl Harbor attack must always be remembered by not just the US but also the free world. A lot of men and women lost their lives at Pearl Harbor as the fleet sat there in safety from the war that was yet to envelope the US within hours. It is not a well known fact that the attack was orchestrated by an English traitor who had sided with the Japanese many years before that terrible day began. The traitor was one of Churchill's top leaders of the Royal Navy, he was Lord Sempill. He died in the 1960s keeping an emblem of the 'rising sun' awarded to him for services to the Japanese Empire! He spied for the Japs for 19 years. The British officers also sold/gave secret info to the Japs prior to the fall of Singapore. You can read more of the story here :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Forbes-Sempill,_19th_Lord_Sempill

The full story of the treachery can be viewed here, you will have to sign in to watch the film but it is certainly worth watching. The info has not long been released. I watched it for the first time on tv last night.

http://www.c21media.net/screenings/all3mediainternational/churchill%E2%80%99s-traitors

Kody

[halfdome, Danny]

My parents were stationed/living in Pearl Harbor then. Don't remember what ship he was stationed on.
My mom said she was hanging her wash on the clothes line when the Japanese planes came.
At first they thought they were our guys practicing, but soon changed that thought.
He was out on liberty and was returning when they started to strafe him and his buddies.
There was a sewer line being built so they hid in the cement pipes.
My mom was a proud member of the Pearl Harbor survivors group in San Diego until her passing.
We should never forget what happened that day and the ensuing war.
Danny

[Verna]

I had the pleasure of being invited to a birthday party last night for a lady who is 80 years old today. She was born in the Phillipines, exacatly 9 years before Pearl Harbor Day. I asked her what she remembered about WWII. I guess that wasn't a good question to ask....she hung her head, and didn't answer. I cannot imagine the horrors she lived through.

Yes, we can never forget, and we must always thank those who served and those who lost their lives so that we may be free.

[Mary C]

I had an older cousin who, according to family history, died near the Harbor. No one really knows what he was doing but he was near one of the ships and from what history and eyewitnesses say he was struck from some shrapnel when something blew up. No one liked to talk about him for some reason, and I heard one time he wasn't liked by the family for some reason. I think that all the ones who fought and died in WWII were sacrificing so we can now enjoy the freedoms we have now. I salute them and will continue to pray for all servicemen past and present, for their families and for peace. I salute


Mary

[Vedette]

It is a day to remember for me too!
It was nine years ago today, that I met the love of my life....Sandi.
Good Roads
Brian

[PKCSPT]

"I salute them and will continue to pray for all servicemen past and present, for their families and for peace. I salute "

Yes

[Woodbutcher]

I visited the Arizona Memorial back in 1987. It was a very moving experience. One thing I will always remember was how quiet the ride out to the Memorial was and that there was almost no talking while viewing the memorial. People seems to show respect for where they were standing. I'll never forget that place.

[pete42]

I was stationed In pearl harbor aboard the submarine USS CARBONERO SS337 the memorial was just being built
or was almost built when I was there it was located across from the sub base.

While on the USS CARBONERO I was incharge of the Torpedo data computer, the gyro setting indicator, and the Periscopes
when you see movies of the capatain of a sub saying "angle on the bow 20 degrees range 4000 yards" I dialed in those figures into the
TDC and it would come up with a firing soultion and send the information to the gyro setting indicator which was hooked
to a torpedo via a mechanical rod which offset the gyroscope located inside the torpedo it's a wonder we hit anything.

Later on I too had a chance to visit the Arizonia Memorial and read the list of names located there.

But what frighten me most was the memorial to the men lost in submarines during WWII
it was a wall not unlike the Vietnam wall in Washington DC only smaller but filled with the names
of my fallen fellow submariners.

My wish before I die is to see an end of this war going on now the longest running war in our history.
I am saddend when I visit my Local VA hospital to see so many young men and women with missing body parts.

Pete