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Pearl Harbor 75 years ago!
Remembering Pearl Harbor, 75 years later http://www.cbsnews.com/news/remembering … ars-later/ Dec 07 16 05:04 am Link A Day that will live in Infamy. Dec 07 16 05:46 am Link On November 16, 1941, my dad had his twenty-first birthday. Three weeks later America was at war. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, my dad promptly enlisted in the Army Air Corp, he didn't wait to be drafted. Seventy-five years ago, dedication to service for our country was a lot stronger than it is today. No doubt we have the finest volunteer military in the world but it is only 1% of the population and has been depleted by fifteen years of unfunded, undeclared war. When I was a kid growing up in St. Louis county, before 1960, everyone's father was a veteran. Everyone's father, and sometime someone's mother, served in some capacity. Dec 07 16 07:58 am Link Lots of heroes that day . . . . . . salute! SOS Dec 07 16 08:58 am Link Cover ready wrote: FDR Dec 07 16 09:03 am Link Frank Lewis Photography wrote: and if we were attacked in an act of war by some foreign country today, millions of young men and women would be lined up to enlist tomorrow. Dec 07 16 09:33 am Link
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Reason: violates rules Comments: Soapbox is closed. Dec 11 16 11:57 am Link sospix wrote: "As happened with other war heroes, Dorie Miller was then sent on a tour in the States to raise money for war bonds, but Miller he was soon called back (spring ’43) to serve on the new escort carrier the USS Liscome Bay. The ship was operating in the Pacific near the Gilbert Islands. At 5:10 a.m. on November 24, the ship was hit by a single torpedo fired from a Japanese submarine. The torpedo detonated the bomb magazine on the carrier; the bombs exploded, and the ship sank within minutes. Miller was initially listed as missing; by November 1944 he status was changed to “presumed dead.” Only 272 men survived the attack." Dec 12 16 04:31 am Link I knew a Pearl Harbor vet. Great Guy. He was on some kind of maintenance ship (Electrician) that morning and he demonstrated what it is like trying to get your pants on with bombs going off all around you. Dec 14 16 10:03 am Link |