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Today is the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941.

On this day 66 years ago, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on an early Sunday morning that caught America completely off guard. Thousands of soldiers and innocent civilians lost their lives during this terrible attack.

Consequently, Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked congress for a declaration of war which brought America into the Second World War.

Let us take this time to remember those who lost their lives on that fateful morning.

Amen.

Sneak attacks are the worst way to start something. 66 years later and the memory of how these soldiers and civilians died in vain still stays strong with us.

We never will forget them or this day.

I've been to Pearl Harbor and have stood over the Arizona. For those of you that have never had the privilege to do so, let me tell you, it is a beautiful and somber experience. It is literally like a tomb in the memorial itself, as everyone whispers when (or if) they speak. The names of all the dead are on a wall, and trust me, it takes a while to go over every single one. There were also Japanese tourists there, and I'm sure they were honoring their dead....and hopefully ours as well.

Visiting a memorial like that is always humbling. We have a memorial up in Green Bay by the Packer's stadium. My grandfather that was in WWII has a spot on it. It went up about the same time he passed away and I find it easier to visit the memorial instead of the grave.

Some day I hope to make it to the Pearl Harbor memorial. It is one of only a handful of places I still want to go to. Our fallen are always on my mind on days like these.

Moonbase2 wrote:I've been to Pearl Harbor and have stood over the Arizona. For those of you that have never had the privilege to do so, let me tell you, it is a beautiful and somber experience. It is literally like a tomb in the memorial itself, as everyone whispers when (or if) they speak. The names of all the dead are on a wall, and trust me, it takes a while to go over every single one. There were also Japanese tourists there, and I'm sure they were honoring their dead....and hopefully ours as well.

Lucky you I would of loved to had been there on that memorial

The funny thing about the the Arizona is that it is still leaking oil after 66 years

What's amazing about the Pearl Harbor attack is how many American and Japanese sailors and airmen who fought against each other then are now friends, or at least acquaintances.

Battlefield memorials are indeed powerful places. Never been to Pearl, but I've been to Vicksburg, MS. It's an odd feeling, snapping pics on the very soil where so much was won and lost so long ago. Gotta make it to Pearl, I'm a big WW2 buff.

Wheeljack35 wrote:

Moonbase2 wrote:I've been to Pearl Harbor and have stood over the Arizona. For those of you that have never had the privilege to do so, let me tell you, it is a beautiful and somber experience. It is literally like a tomb in the memorial itself, as everyone whispers when (or if) they speak. The names of all the dead are on a wall, and trust me, it takes a while to go over every single one. There were also Japanese tourists there, and I'm sure they were honoring their dead....and hopefully ours as well.

Lucky you I would of loved to had been there on that memorial

The funny thing about the the Arizona is that it is still leaking oil after 66 years

Yea they don't want to attach pumps because they are afraid of the hull collasping. so they are just letting the oil leak out little but little.

The thing that gets me, alot of people don't even know what this day means. I am in the US Air Force, and a veteran , days like this mean alot to me. Its just really upsetting when todays youth and some adults don't have a clue what today is.

Yep.
It is quite a consequence that it's raining up here today, as if in mourning.
That is a day we never should have needed to relive, so to speak, in 9/11.

Optimus Prime007 wrote:

Wheeljack35 wrote:

Moonbase2 wrote:I've been to Pearl Harbor and have stood over the Arizona. For those of you that have never had the privilege to do so, let me tell you, it is a beautiful and somber experience. It is literally like a tomb in the memorial itself, as everyone whispers when (or if) they speak. The names of all the dead are on a wall, and trust me, it takes a while to go over every single one. There were also Japanese tourists there, and I'm sure they were honoring their dead....and hopefully ours as well.

Lucky you I would of loved to had been there on that memorial

The funny thing about the the Arizona is that it is still leaking oil after 66 years

Yea they don't want to attach pumps because they are afraid of the hull collasping. so they are just letting the oil leak out little but little.

The thing that gets me, alot of people don't even know what this day means. I am in the US Air Force, and a veteran , days like this mean alot to me. Its just really upsetting when todays youth and some adults don't have a clue what today is.

Well to attempt to remove it could cause an ecological nightmare, so...that's the way it stays. I didn't see any oil bubbles when I was there.

Optimus Prime007 wrote:

Wheeljack35 wrote:

Moonbase2 wrote:I've been to Pearl Harbor and have stood over the Arizona. For those of you that have never had the privilege to do so, let me tell you, it is a beautiful and somber experience. It is literally like a tomb in the memorial itself, as everyone whispers when (or if) they speak. The names of all the dead are on a wall, and trust me, it takes a while to go over every single one. There were also Japanese tourists there, and I'm sure they were honoring their dead....and hopefully ours as well.

Lucky you I would of loved to had been there on that memorial

The funny thing about the the Arizona is that it is still leaking oil after 66 years

Yea they don't want to attach pumps because they are afraid of the hull collasping. so they are just letting the oil leak out little but little.

The thing that gets me, alot of people don't even know what this day means. I am in the US Air Force, and a veteran , days like this mean alot to me. Its just really upsetting when todays youth and some adults don't have a clue what today is.

Yes it is very sad that today's youth don't really know, understand, or care about the things that happened in this countrys past.

Barracuda wrote:Yes it is very sad that today's youth don't really know, understand, or care about the things that happened in this countrys past.

I'm lucky I was able to learn what i did, and have had rather good teachers.
I'm a very patriotic person.

Moonbase2 wrote:

Optimus Prime007 wrote:

Wheeljack35 wrote:

Moonbase2 wrote:I've been to Pearl Harbor and have stood over the Arizona. For those of you that have never had the privilege to do so, let me tell you, it is a beautiful and somber experience. It is literally like a tomb in the memorial itself, as everyone whispers when (or if) they speak. The names of all the dead are on a wall, and trust me, it takes a while to go over every single one. There were also Japanese tourists there, and I'm sure they were honoring their dead....and hopefully ours as well.

Lucky you I would of loved to had been there on that memorial

The funny thing about the the Arizona is that it is still leaking oil after 66 years

Yea they don't want to attach pumps because they are afraid of the hull collasping. so they are just letting the oil leak out little but little.

The thing that gets me, alot of people don't even know what this day means. I am in the US Air Force, and a veteran , days like this mean alot to me. Its just really upsetting when todays youth and some adults don't have a clue what today is.

Well to attempt to remove it could cause an ecological nightmare, so...that's the way it stays. I didn't see any oil bubbles when I was there.

plus the whole desecretion of the resting place of all the servicemen who died on the arizona and at pearl harbor.

To think there are still bodies in that ship

Thanks for posting this, it isn't often that I actually remember these kinds of things, even though both my grand dads fought in WW 2