Worse thing is when I was young we had to go all the way to the library and check out a book (often having to reserve it weeks beforehand) to find out anything about anything, nowadays with the ease of the internet along woth wikipedia and google it takes seconds to find something out from the comfort of your warm chair yet the youngsters know less than we did, there's no excuse in this day and age for such gross ignorance unless your banned from the internet/tv as well as leaving the house
Remember Pearl Harbor
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Theopolis Q. Hossenffer
I am in America, not of it.
I used to listen to the Old Folks talk about how they were glad they were old and wouldn't have to see the future. I thought they were nuts. Now I am glad I am old.
Ace Boobtoucher
Founder and Captain of the Douchepatrol
I can't top what Mayhem wrote in response to some douche bag's post so I'll let my signature speak for itself.
I spoke with my Mom and several others about their experiences on December 7th and the four years following. The actions everyone undertook to help the war effort were far reaching and unimaginable to anyone born in the succeeding generations. Rationing everything, from gasoline to sugar. My Mother recalls saving bacon grease for use in explosive ordnance and other things that would normally be thrown away. Scrap drives, war bonds and voluntary enlistment. Not to mention the draft. People had a sense of duty and were shaken to the core by events in a place that many had never heard of before. People around the country were unified as they had never been before or since (there was a smattering of patriotic fervor following 911 but that emotional charge dissipated relatively quickly).
I went to the Iowa Historical Society Building as a kid and I remember seeing fragments from a balloon bomb that Japanese subs had released off the West Coast. There were a few reported explosions in western and central Iowa and even that far inland people were afraid of the prospect of a Japanese invasion.
My Grandfather, a pharmacist, was exempted from service but was an air raid warden. As unlikely as it sounds that far from either coast there was a concern about air raids and people had to install blackout curtains in their homes. Some of the older folks still had them in their homes when I was growing up. One of Des Moines' high schools was converted into an aircraft parts manufacturing plant and Camp Dodge, just north of Des Moines, normally a sleepy National Guard outpost, was quickly transformed into an induction center, turning out thousands of troops from 1942-1945.
Sure, some of the actions could have been avoided but we would inevitably have gotten sucked into the conflict. That generation sacrificed so much. To have some idiot 15 year old not know the pertinent details about the attack or to confuse it with something that happened 150 years before WWII is an appalling indictment of the education system.
I spoke with my Mom and several others about their experiences on December 7th and the four years following. The actions everyone undertook to help the war effort were far reaching and unimaginable to anyone born in the succeeding generations. Rationing everything, from gasoline to sugar. My Mother recalls saving bacon grease for use in explosive ordnance and other things that would normally be thrown away. Scrap drives, war bonds and voluntary enlistment. Not to mention the draft. People had a sense of duty and were shaken to the core by events in a place that many had never heard of before. People around the country were unified as they had never been before or since (there was a smattering of patriotic fervor following 911 but that emotional charge dissipated relatively quickly).
I went to the Iowa Historical Society Building as a kid and I remember seeing fragments from a balloon bomb that Japanese subs had released off the West Coast. There were a few reported explosions in western and central Iowa and even that far inland people were afraid of the prospect of a Japanese invasion.
My Grandfather, a pharmacist, was exempted from service but was an air raid warden. As unlikely as it sounds that far from either coast there was a concern about air raids and people had to install blackout curtains in their homes. Some of the older folks still had them in their homes when I was growing up. One of Des Moines' high schools was converted into an aircraft parts manufacturing plant and Camp Dodge, just north of Des Moines, normally a sleepy National Guard outpost, was quickly transformed into an induction center, turning out thousands of troops from 1942-1945.
Sure, some of the actions could have been avoided but we would inevitably have gotten sucked into the conflict. That generation sacrificed so much. To have some idiot 15 year old not know the pertinent details about the attack or to confuse it with something that happened 150 years before WWII is an appalling indictment of the education system.
Nobody is innocent in war. I guess it is something your kids should know as a time of perseverance. A time of industrious will to prevail in the eyes of your adversary. Funnily enough I doubt the Japs thought too badly of the whole thing as Bushido is probably still somewhat ingrained in their culture. Everyone understands the universal language, a language not of words but of action.
Fuck I really out done myself this time. Is that some quality sucking up or is it what.
Fuck I really out done myself this time. Is that some quality sucking up or is it what.
Sam Fisher
Banned
My grandpa fought in Europe in WWII. Got wounded terribly in the Battle of the Heurtgen Forest.
Sam Fisher
Banned
Going to be a shame when the last WWII survivor passes away. Thankfully though, there are good resources that will keep their service, honor, and history alive and remembered.
Jagger69
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
Thanks DOA but you forgot to delete post #26. Appreciate your intervention....thank you sir! :thumbsup:
Some pretty striking photos here:
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm
A moment of silence a crisp salute and very heartfelt thank you. We shall always remember we shall never forget.
Ace Boobtoucher
Founder and Captain of the Douchepatrol
That is a very nice, redundantly repetitive statement.
Read the second part on a monument on the Gettysburg battlefield. Seemed to fit.
PlasmaTwa2
The Second-Hottest Man in my Mother's Basement
"A date that will live in infamy".
Yep.
Hard to fathom it's been 70 years.
One of my father's siblings, a mechanic, perished on The Arizona, God rest his soul.
Sorry, not really buying it. This has become an epidemic urban legend. Right up there with the legion of conservative internet warriors who claim to be Nam vets and claim they were spit on by hippies. I've been to the Arizona memorial six times over the course of four decades. Each time there was a sizable contingent of Japanese present. Never once did I see a single soul behave in a disrespectful manner. It may be that instances of such behavior have occurred, but if so they would be very rare.
Yep.
Hard to fathom it's been 70 years.
One of my father's siblings, a mechanic, perished on The Arizona, God rest his soul.
Sorry, not really buying it. This has become an epidemic urban legend. Right up there with the legion of conservative internet warriors who claim to be Nam vets and claim they were spit on by hippies. I've been to the Arizona memorial six times over the course of four decades. Each time there was a sizable contingent of Japanese present. Never once did I see a single soul behave in a disrespectful manner. It may be that instances of such behavior have occurred, but if so they would be very rare.
