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re: Pearl Harbor, Never Forget!
Posted on 12/7/20 at 8:01 am to GumplandTiger
Posted on 12/7/20 at 8:01 am to GumplandTiger
What a date in history. Sadly, patriotism is a thing of the past in America today.
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Posted on 12/7/20 at 8:15 am to GumplandTiger
I had a great uncle who was a career Navy man and was at Pearl Harbor during the attack. He was an enlisted aviator and retired after 30 years of service.
Never talked much about his experience till after I enlisted. I stayed the night at their house before going to Korea and he told me a lot about what happened and showed me his uniforms as well as some pictures of reunions he and the guys he served with had over the years.
Never talked much about his experience till after I enlisted. I stayed the night at their house before going to Korea and he told me a lot about what happened and showed me his uniforms as well as some pictures of reunions he and the guys he served with had over the years.
Posted on 12/7/20 at 10:24 am to GumplandTiger
Posted on 12/7/20 at 10:29 am to DesScorp
9/11 faux patriotism didn't last a week before Democrats and the left started blaming America and complaining about jingoistic displays of American pride.
Posted on 12/7/20 at 10:33 am to SoFla Tideroller
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9/11 faux patriotism didn't last a week before Democrats and the left started blaming America and complaining about jingoistic displays of American pride.
I would argue the biggest downfall of the post-9/11 patriotic mood was the pointless Iraq War. The patriotic mood reached new highs with Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” banner on the flight deck of that aircraft carrier.
Then the insurgency started, and we realized we were stuck in a quagmire and those WMDs never turned up.
Posted on 12/7/20 at 10:38 am to GumplandTiger
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God Bless America!
downvoters
Posted on 12/7/20 at 10:43 am to Traveler
Posted on 12/7/20 at 10:49 am to GumplandTiger
My grandfather joined the Marine Corps the very next day after Pearl Harbor
Posted on 12/7/20 at 11:03 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Captain Quint was on the USS Indianapolis, not at Pearl Harbor.
I know, He delivered the retaliation bomb.
Posted on 12/7/20 at 11:03 am to GumplandTiger
Back when you could call a JAP a JAP!!!!
Posted on 12/7/20 at 11:05 am to GumplandTiger
My BIL’s uncle and a very close friend’s wife’s uncle (or older cousin) were both sailors aboard the USS Arizona and did not survive the attack - bodies not recovered and are entombed in the hull at Pearl. Both Louisiana boys - one from S LA and one from N LA - we don’t know if they knew each other as the ship’s crew numbered around 1,500.
Posted on 12/7/20 at 11:10 am to GumplandTiger
If that happened today, the democrats would be cheering for the Japs.
This was the ultimate case of frick around and find out.
This was the ultimate case of frick around and find out.
Posted on 12/7/20 at 11:13 am to CrawDude
quote:you find your own. Especially back then, people seemed way more talkative
we don’t know if they knew each other as the ship’s crew numbered around 1,500.
Posted on 12/7/20 at 2:10 pm to SEClint
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I know, He delivered the retaliation bomb.
Gotcha!
Posted on 12/7/20 at 7:06 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Posted on 12/7/20 at 7:17 pm to Pechon
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Never talked much about his experience till after I enlisted. I stayed the night at their house before going to Korea and he told me a lot about what happened and showed me his uniforms as well as some pictures of reunions he and the guys he served with had over the years.
I pretty much experienced the same situation with my Dad. He served in Patton's 3rd Army during WWII. Didn't talk it much until I returned from a year in Nam. Then we both opened up & talked about our experiences.
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