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« on: December 07, 2008, 01:26:37 PM »

Just a comment that those who perished at Pearl Harbor on this day sixty-seven years ago did not die in vain. Though the war that followed (and which was already ongoing for so much of the world) was terrible for those who took part in it on all sides, it did bring an end to Japanese imperialism and Nazi tyranny and all the cruelties inherent within them. The post-war world hasn't been perfect but it has been so much better a place because of the sacrifices of those  lost at Pearl Harbor and after.

As a postscript, in Mt. Washington Cemetery, not too far from where I grew up, are two headstones, side by side, of two young brothers who were killed on the USS Arizona on that fateful day. I've never been sure if the brothers are actually buried in those graves or if the headstones are cenotaphs, but the day back in high school I happened across those almost unheralded graves it stirred my thoughts back to that terrible morning, and brought it home that it wasn't all just something from the pages of a history book, real people from my own community were there and suffered and fell. I know that may sound hokey but it's the best way I can describe it, that seeing those markers made me feel something of the impact of what it must have been like to be alive that day and hear of the attack on fellow Americans.

I hope there are no more days of infamy ahead, but if there are, let's hope those alive then can be as brave as the World War Two generations were in rising to the challenge. And let's hope that at some point after that future day of days the world is left a better place than it had been.
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« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2008, 07:49:35 PM »

About 10 years ago I got to talk to an old man who was there that day.  A native Hawaiian, he liked to climb to the top of a crane at the shipyards on Sunday and watch the fleet . . . he had been up there for about 15 minutes that morning when all hell broke loose.  He said one Japanese plane flew so close he could have hit it with a rock, if he'd had a rock to throw.  Afterwards, he waited till he turned 16, lied about his age, and joined up so he could be a part of the payback.  He wound up serving on Iwo Jima and Okinawa.  Don't know if he is still alive or not, but a tip of the hat to him if he is.
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« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2008, 04:47:48 PM »

When I was in Hawaii, a number of years ago, as part of a tour group, part of the tour included a visit to the "Arizona." Tickets are free, but you have to line-up and stand in line for them. They give you time to shop for souveniers, then when it is your time to enter the theater, they escort you into the theater, and you see a short film about December 7th, which was my favorite part of the tour, as it gave a face to some of the people who were there that day. Then a veteran who was there that day, comes out, and gives a short talk about what it was like that day. Then they put you on a boat and take you out to the "Arizona." And you get off the boat and walk around the memorial, which is above the sunken "Arizona." Then the boat comes back and takes you back to shore. What surprised me, is how many Japanese come to take the tour.
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