A Day That Will Live In Infamy?
December 7, 1941, a day that was to live in infamy, but does it? Are people forgetting? The Mobile Resister has a piece on this.
While today marks the 64th anniversary of the Japanese attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which plunged the nation into World War II, local officials report a scarcity of area observances of the event.
No observance of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack will take place at Battleship Memorial Park on the Causeway this year because the park has remained closed since Aug. 29 when Hurricane Katrina inflicted some $4 million in damage on it.“We’re planning a large event next year for the 65th anniversary,” Bill Tunnel, executive director of the park, said Tuesday. He said Pearl Harbor survivors throughout the state will be invited next year to a ceremony to take place on the park’s centerpiece, the USS Alabama. He said he hopes the park can be partially reopened “within the next 30 days.”
“I don’t know of anything planned at all” in the area, said Buford Barber, 84, a Pearl Harbor survivor who lives in Fairhope.
He said he is aware of only a few survivors living in the area. “We’re not youngsters anymore,” said Barber, who was a 20-year-old sailor on board the USS Helena at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck.
Another Pearl Harbor survivor, Wes Strauley, 86, also of Fairhope, lamented Tuesday, “I don’t see any observances any place. It’s going to be just a gone day. … But that’s life. Maybe next year we’ll kick up something big.”
The Deleware New Journal has this to say
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese made Dec. 7, 1941, as FDR said in that famous radio broadcast, “a date which will live in infamy.”
Fred Hess used to think that was so, but these days he’s worried that the president was wrong. He’s afraid that the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor soon will go unremarked and unremembered.“It’s mind-boggling to me that so many kids don’t even know about Pearl Harbor and what it was and what it meant,” said Hess, 78, as he sat in Jack Hanna’s Newport barbershop working out the last details for today’s annual memorial service.
This is linked with Michelle Malkin
December 7, 2005 - 12:34 PM on December 7th, 2005
Pearl Harbor posting
Here’s a round-up of Pearl Harbor posts. Many of the links are, themselves, link-filled. Click, read, remember. Michelle Malkin: Pearl Harbor: 64 Years La Shawn Barber: The attack on Pearl Harbor remembered 64 years later…
December 7, 2005 - 12:59 PM on December 7th, 2005
“This is not a drill!”
One of my favorite naval stories has always been that of the USS Nevada’s attempted sortie during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on the…
December 7, 2005 - 01:17 PM on December 7th, 2005
Come off it Right voice, people who have come here by the millions in the last 50 years don’t care about world war two or think the japs are good people who were forced to fight the evil Americans, most third world people love the “Nazi japs” who murdered millions of helpless little yellow people its part of the ideals of fools who can’t understand what freedom is.
the sad fact is it was the whites guys who freed the monkeys.
December 7, 2005 - 01:25 PM on December 7th, 2005
Fred, go wash your mouth out with Lava soap!
My daughter is Korean. I resent your attitued and prejudiced notions here. The Philipinos still resent Japan from WW2. My ex-wife’s brother got grilled about my daughter. Dwight’s fiancee’s family thought my daughter was Japanese and was not going to let them marry until it was proven my daughter was Korean.
So get off it Fred!
December 7, 2005 - 01:29 PM on December 7th, 2005
Fred- you just answered my question. You do think you are the “chosen” race. What race is it Fred?
December 7, 2005 - 09:07 PM on December 7th, 2005
Instead of getting us to appologise as RAMSEY CLARK would want us to do why dont RAMSEY CLARK be made to go to the ARIZONA MEMORLAL and be made to look down at the USS ARIZONA before him and the rest of his selfrightcous blame america crowd starts blabbering
December 7, 2005 - 10:04 PM on December 7th, 2005
December 7, 2005 - 10:15 PM on December 7th, 2005
:cool
h yes the last war that was a win was world war two, A white guys Army, now start yelling out that is a lie! do you know about company k 1944? likely not, do you want to know more?:wink:
250,000 dead American ( 99.5 whites ) 2.1 million dead Germans
80,000 dead Americans ( 99.8 whites ) 4.5 million dead japs.
the fact tell you what real troops can do to the enemies of freedom.
stop the hate remove the enemy troops from America, ( see borders ) you can always cut my head off for thinking like a free person who can see.
December 8, 2005 - 03:37 AM on December 8th, 2005
I was a little shocked this year myself. I asked my daughter if they mentioned it at school and she said NO.
Humph.