While I'm pretty sure that there are not many of the men and women who were there on that day in History, who are still out driving their RVs around, I don't doubt though, that there are plenty of children and grandchildren of people who were lost that day.Fortunately, my own Father was not there, and did survive the war, but I know that it changed a lot of who we are as a nation.We can't drive our RV's over to Hawaii, to visit the history, so it's sometimes forgotten.Just wanted to shout out to make sure that this is a day in our history that we do not forget.Thanks to all our past and current men & women in uniform.....this is a day of remembrance and respect.

Thanks and its a day never to forget.

PapPappy wrote:While I'm pretty sure that there are not many of the men and women who were there on that day in History, who are still out driving their RVs around, I don't doubt though, that there are plenty of children and grandchildren of people who were lost that day.Fortunately, my own Father was not there, and did survive the war, but I know that it changed a lot of who we are as a nation.We can't drive our RV's over to Hawaii, to visit the history, so it's sometimes forgotten.Just wanted to shout out to make sure that this is a day in our history that we do not forget.Thanks to all our past and current men & women in uniform.....this is a day of remembrance and respect.X2 Have been to the Arizona memorial, it was a very moving experience!Freedom isn't free! Thanks to all of our service women and men!

My father was civil engineer working on expansion of Ft Wingate near Gallup, NM when the war came. I was eight years old when we were at a movie theater in Gallup, and the film stopped. A man came on stage and announced the attack on Pearl Harbor. We lived on a hill near the railroad. In the following days the troop and military equipment trains came going west at a rate of one about every 20 minutes. When a troop train stopped, the citizens of Gallup provided treats for them.The son of a family friend still rests in the Arizona. He was twenty one years.Ron

Thank you for the reminder that freedom has a cost, and that the Greatest Generation paid that cost in more than a full measure in WWII. Thank God that our preceding and following generations have also been willing and able. God bless the USA.

Every December 7 I watch Tora! Tora! Tora!. Tonight's the night!

Pearl Harbor | Good Sam Community

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Water-Bug
Explorer II
Dec 09, 2013
ChopperBill wrote:
SRT wrote:
Water-Bug wrote:
No, Henry Ford did that. At the peak of WWII, we could build bombers faster than the Germans could shoot them down. Except for the A bomb, Germany was outpacing us in technology. Today, we have virtually no manufacturing, and IMHO we will pay dearly for it in the future.

I have the same thoughts about your last sentence. We have "exported" our manufacturing infrastructure and it will bit us in the butt in the future. JMHO.

"Remember Pearl Harbor" Seems most folks forgot.

My statement wasn't meant to detract from the remembrance of Pearl Harbor but rather to give credit to hard working Americans who made this country great. I've been to Pearl Harbor and seen the memorial. I've also been to Midway, where one of the greatest naval battles of the war was fought, and seen building there that still stood and had the repaired holes from being straffed by Japanese Zeros. I've been to the Aleutians and seen the remains of quanset huts and airfields where the Japanese actually landed on American soil. I remember more than most.
mockturtle
Explorer II
Dec 08, 2013
Acampingwewillgo wrote:
Wow.....our sincere condolences on your Mother's passing Francesca. What a beautiful tribute to her. God Bless!
I'm sorry to hear of your mother's death, Francesca. She served honorably and left a great legacy.
Less_Stuff
Explorer
Dec 08, 2013
On December the 7, 1963 I sailed out of Pearl Harbor on the USS Rupertus.
The significance was not lost on me.
Realizing how lucky I was that my destroyer was not under attack.

Good fortune has stayed with me and I have been back to Pearl.
Even fortunate enough to attend a friends Navy retirement ceremony on the fantail of the USS Missouri.

Pearl Harbor is a special place and event for me.
FlatBroke
Explorer II
Dec 08, 2013
SRT wrote:
Water-Bug wrote:
No, Henry Ford did that. At the peak of WWII, we could build bombers faster than the Germans could shoot them down. Except for the A bomb, Germany was outpacing us in technology. Today, we have virtually no manufacturing, and IMHO we will pay dearly for it in the future.

I have the same thoughts about your last sentence. We have "exported" our manufacturing infrastructure and it will bit us in the butt in the future. JMHO.

"Remember Pearl Harbor" Seems most folks forgot.
SRT
Explorer
Dec 08, 2013
Water-Bug wrote:
No, Henry Ford did that. At the peak of WWII, we could build bombers faster than the Germans could shoot them down. Except for the A bomb, Germany was outpacing us in technology. Today, we have virtually no manufacturing, and IMHO we will pay dearly for it in the future.

I have the same thoughts about your last sentence. We have "exported" our manufacturing infrastructure and it will bit us in the butt in the future. JMHO.
gmctoyman
Explorer
Dec 08, 2013
I also was disappointed in the absence of recognition of the sugnifiance yesterday of December 7. I guess it's just a matter of the passing of those who were affected, either directly, or indirectly, by the event.

My folks (dad) moved to Hickam AAF in ’47, of course dragging my sister and I along. He flew the B-17 rescue flights. I believe the H model, with the Mahogany life boat strapped under the belly. I still have stark memories of the destruction that was still evident, and going over to Pearl to see the sunken ships.

I started school over there, AND also have some stark memories of getting some swimming lessons from Ester Williams in the new Hickham elevated pool.
Kit_Carson
Explorer
Dec 08, 2013
Only a small article appeared in our local newspaper yesterday. SHAMEFUL!! Seems with each passing year less and less is reported. RIP all warriors of that fateful day.
D_E_Bishop
Explorer
Dec 08, 2013
Two years ago in DC I had the great fortune to meet several WWII survivors that were at the Memorial. They were members of a group taken free of charge by an organization called Honor Flight to DC to see the Memorial. I was wearing a Submarine Force tee shirt and they accepted me as one of them and I talked to several of them for some time. It would take days and days and page upon page to relate their stories. They are True American Heroes.

I served in Pearl Harbor in the late 50's and early 60's and as part of our training viewed many classified films from that day, it is unbelievable what happened on that day in 1942.

Back to the Guys in DC, when we parted company, they thanked me for my service during the Cold War. Men who had probably never related most of what they told me to anyone, men who saw and lived through horrible things, Thanked Me for serving. I hope someday to be proven to be half as good as those men.

Please support them in all the ways you can, they are America and what it stand for.
TurnThePage
Explorer
Dec 08, 2013
Acampingwewillgo wrote:
Wow.....our sincere condolences on your Mother's passing Francesca. What a beautiful tribute to her. God Bless!

Indeed! x1000
Acampingwewillg
Explorer II
Dec 08, 2013
Wow.....our sincere condolences on your Mother's passing Francesca. What a beautiful tribute to her. God Bless!