Pearl Harbor Day

[whoman69]

Originally Posted by Cheater5

“Before we’re through with ‘em, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell.” – Admiral William Halsey Jr. (December 1941)


Different times I suppose...

I'm sure it's not long before some douche bag troll makes a punk ass comment about Pearl Harbor Day, and how the U.S. is the greatest purveyor of violence since 19XX and they have the b@llsh*t statistics to prove it. Or Pearl Harbor was a 'conspiracy' and the whole war was a plot masterminded by...the Kennedy's or some other such internet pillowbitergotry.

Thanks for reminding everyone about today, cabletech94.

I've got my negrep ready for any contingencies.

[whoman69]

My father was in an anti-tank unit with the 8th Army towards the end of the war in the Ruhr pocket. He was hit on his 19th birthday. When the war ended he was in San Francisco most likely as part of a planned invasion force of the main Japanese islands. The atomic bomb saved his life and the lives of millions of Japanese and hundreds of thousands of American serviceman's lives no matter how the revisionist historians paint it.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by whoman69

My father was in an anti-tank unit with the 8th Army towards the end of the war in the Ruhr pocket. He was hit on his 19th birthday. When the war ended he was in San Francisco most likely as part of a planned invasion force of the main Japanese islands. The atomic bomb saved his life and the lives of millions of Japanese and hundreds of thousands of American serviceman's lives no matter how the revisionist historians paint it.

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[splatbass]

I work across the street from the Arizona Memorial, and live down the street from Wheeler Army Airfield (where the first bombs were dropped on planes as the Japanese made their way to Pearl Harbor 15 miles away). There are still buildings at Pearl Harbor and Hickam with bullet holes in them.

RIP to all who lost their lives that morning.