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Old 12-06-2016, 04:20 PM   #1
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Spare a moment today,it is a special day for our US friends.
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Old 12-06-2016, 05:14 PM   #2
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Thank you, Lawrie. It is indeed a special day, and was also for all our friends on Oceania.

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Old 12-06-2016, 05:37 PM   #3
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I was 8 years old in Fox Lake Ill on Dec 7. I remember it well, because I was with my Dad and uncle Dan. He was in the Army getting ready for discharge. Learned a few cuss words on the way home.
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Old 12-06-2016, 08:58 PM   #4
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I REMEMBER IT WELL. I was almost 10.
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Old 12-06-2016, 09:22 PM   #5
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Thank you Lawrie. I wasn't even a twinkle in my Father's eye yet on Dec. 7, 1941.

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Old 12-06-2016, 10:24 PM   #6
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Very special day, unfortunately there are less than 300 survivors of Pearl Harbor alive today.
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Old 12-06-2016, 10:31 PM   #7
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I was 4 and remember the concerned words between my mother and father in those bad years. Daddy ran the Hi-Y in town for 43 years and many of his "boys" served and many did not come home. I still have letters from many to him.
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Old 12-06-2016, 11:26 PM   #8
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Very special day, unfortunately there are less than 300 survivors of Pearl Harbor alive today.
My father was stationed in Hawaii in the US Army and was there during the attack. He was also a member of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.
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Old 12-07-2016, 01:36 AM   #9
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I was too young to remember Pearl Harbor. My brother joined the Merchant Marine. My father made bomb casings in San Francisco. I did my part with my little flag at the VE Day Parade. Oddly, all I remember of VJ day was the newsreels at the neighborhood theater.
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Old 12-07-2016, 06:21 AM   #10
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I was 2 1/2 at the start but remember the war years and rationing, it ended on my birthday, thought they were celebrating my birthday. Lots and lots of celebrating. Zeke
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A day of remembrance and a salute to all our military and Veterans.
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Old 12-07-2016, 07:48 AM   #12
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Vic you said it so well I agree 100 percent.
I wasn't born yet when all this happened, but my Dad did fight in the Philippines 1943,44 era. I also got to see the Arizona memorial in 2007 and the USS Missouri/Pacific Aviation Museum in 2013, it was a very moving experience.

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Old 12-07-2016, 07:57 AM   #13
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I remember, I was 6, in the first grade, they let us out of school, the teacher was crying. Walt
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I remember, I was 6, in the first grade, they let us out of school, the teacher was crying. Walt
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The US bases at the Philippines and our allies in the Dutch East Indies were also attacked on the same day as Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Old 12-07-2016, 11:26 AM   #15
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I was not born yet but later in 1944. I do have a 1941 Ford though. My father and 15 of his high school buddies (graduates) went downtown to enlist the next day. Dad served with General Patton in the Third Army. One cute story he told me was when they went for their physicals one of my Dad's buddies couldn't urinate in the test container so my dad filled his also. His buddy called my Dad "Closer than blood brother." My Dad was in the Combat Engineer Corps. His company built the first Bailey Bridge across the Rhine River. General Patton walked to the center of the bridge,unzipped his fly and fulfilled a 4 year promise to piss in the Rhine. He awarded all the men in Dad's company a Bronze Star as they built the bridge under fire with two men getting killed..
They were truly The Greatest Generation.
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Old 12-07-2016, 11:27 AM   #16
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I was 8 yrs old and did my part with collecting newspapers and scrap drives.
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Old 12-07-2016, 11:37 AM   #17
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Let's hope today's younger folks don't go hide in their
safe spaces and "forget" the sacrifices of the greatest
generation and what they really did. They grew up during
the Depression and then won the war.
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Old 12-07-2016, 12:44 PM   #18
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I was born a couple years after the attack, but I can recall hearing stories about what happened when I was old enough to understand, plus watching old news films in school.
In the mid '60's the Destroyer I was stationed on pulled into Pearl Harbor, on our way home to Long Beach Ca., after two years of patrolling the South China Sea/Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam.
It was a very somber experience seeing all the US 7th Fleet war ships that were either docked or anchored in the harbor. Seeing the mountain range that the Japanese planes came over, it was not difficult to imagine how that surprise attack actually occured.
A big thank you to all the men and women serving in our armed forces today who are doing their best to prevent something like this from happening again.
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Old 12-07-2016, 01:11 PM   #19
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I was not born yet either, but all 5 of my uncles and my father have served along my brother and myself. My father in law was a F6F Hellcat carrier pilot in the south Pacific. So proud of them. I salute them all and especially the lost of the Pearl Harbor!!
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Old 12-07-2016, 02:53 PM   #20
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I was only 8 months old my Father worked in the shipyards during the war
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