Let Us Not Forget: On this day in 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack destroyed 188 aircraft and several American naval vessels, killed more than 2,300 American...

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

On this day in 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack destroyed 188 aircraft and several American naval vessels, killed more than 2,300 American military personnel, and wounded more than 1,100. The end result was the U.S. entered WWII the next day.
--Bob

MrBossHK Loc: The West Valley of Phoenix metro area

rmalarz wrote:

On this day in 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack destroyed 188 aircraft and several American naval vessels, killed more than 2,300 American military personnel, and wounded more than 1,100. The end result was the U.S. entered WWII the next day.
--Bob

I was up at daylight to hang my flag on the front of my house. Invariably, a neighbor or two will ask me why I put out my flag today.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Bigmike1 Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.

I fly the flag every day in my front yard.

Stephan G

rmalarz wrote:

On this day in 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack destroyed 188 aircraft and several American naval vessels, killed more than 2,300 American military personnel, and wounded more than 1,100. The end result was the U.S. entered WWII the next day.
--Bob

I worked with a guy nicknamed "Red" so many years ago. He was on one of the ships attacked at Pearl Harbor. He earned his nick by the burns suffered when he and several others fought the fires aboard. He was one of the many heroes of that day. An aside, my future wife's uncle was in the second wave of responding fighter planes to go after the Japanese, as well. Above all, War is Hell.

And there is a war being waged even now.

LCD

Thank you. I wasn't alive at the time, so people like us need a reminder.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

rmalarz wrote:

On this day in 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack destroyed 188 aircraft and several American naval vessels, killed more than 2,300 American military personnel, and wounded more than 1,100. The end result was the U.S. entered WWII the next day.
--Bob

I remember December 7 every year even though the attack occurred before I was born. The most shocking day of my parents' generation.

pbearperry Loc: Massachusetts

Horrible day.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I remember that day and Roosevelt's speech. My best friend from grammar school also had Dec. 7 as his birthday. I doubt I'll forget Dec. 7th, 1941.

Thanks, Bob!
Mark

Toment Loc: FL, IL

Thanks, Bob

Nalu Loc: Southern Arizona

Thanks Bob.

waymond Loc: Pflugerville, Texas

FDR said "this a day that will go down in infamy", or similar words.

I visited the memorial constructed over the "Arizona", and it was a truly emotional experience, to see the surfacing of the oil leakage and being told that it was the tears of the brave men entombed in the ship.

As a citizen and veteran, WE MUST NEVER FORGET.

fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

MrBossHK wrote:

I was up at daylight to hang my flag on the front of my house. Invariably, a neighbor or two will ask me why I put out my flag today.

Sad. We baby boomers are the last to have a direct connection to Pearl Harbor day via our parents. With each generation something like this more and more becomes an obscure description in a history book. When I looked at my daughter's newly published history book a few years ago, all Viet Nam merited, was a couple of paragraphs.

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

waymond wrote:

FDR said "this a day that will go down in infamy", or similar words.

I visited the memorial constructed over the "Arizona", and it was a truly emotional experience, to see the surfacing of the oil leakage and being told that it was the tears of the brave men entombed in the ship.

As a citizen and veteran, WE MUST NEVER FORGET.

Yesterday, December the seventh, nineteen-hundred and forty-one, a date which will live in infamy…

I was born in 1958, but my father of blessed memory taught me the opening of Roosevelt's speech. Thanks to that, I never forget the significance of today.

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markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

waymond wrote:

FDR said "this a day that will go down in infamy", or similar words.

I visited the memorial constructed over the "Arizona", and it was a truly emotional experience, to see the surfacing of the oil leakage and being told that it was the tears of the brave men entombed in the ship.

As a citizen and veteran, WE MUST NEVER FORGET.

Roosevelt's Speech: I heard it via radio. I was 2 months from my 5th birthday. I sat on my Mom's lap.

"Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
The United States was at peace with that Nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its Government and its Emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American Island of Oahu, the Japanese Ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack.

No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory. I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us. Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces—with the unbounding determination of our people—we will gain the inevitable triumph—so help us God. I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire."

Mark