December 7, 1941

[RaceGrrl]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20111207/D9RFVJ881.html

This story made me tear up today. There are so few left... :(

[Lux Interior]

70 years ago. I remember when it was 50 years ago. Time flies.

[Elmo T]

Something I never really pondered until I read this:

Fire Response to Pearl Harbor Remembered 70 Years Later (http://www.firehouse.com/stateprovince/hawaii/fire-response-pearl-harbor-remembered-70-years-later)


The Honolulu Fire Department -- dispatched to Hickam Airfield to assist federal crews with multiple structure fires on Dec. 7, 1941 -- lost three firefighters that day.

Firefighters on duty noted their activities in a logbook. "8 a.m. Tel. alarm Hickam field, #4 Co. responded."

The entries, penned in longhand, continued: ".Rec'd 25 mattresses from Central. Dead at Hickam field fire were Captains Carriera + Macy, Pang, hoseman. Injured hosemen Kalihbane, P.J. McCabe, J. Gilman, Sol Naavao."

[emjaya]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8938657/The-70th-anniversary-of-the-Japanese-attack-on-Pearl-Harbour.html?image=14

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8938657/The-70th-anniversary-of-the-Japanese-attack-on-Pearl-Harbour.html?image=14

[SteveH]

Something I never really pondered until I read this:

Fire Response to Pearl Harbor Remembered 70 Years Later (http://www.firehouse.com/stateprovince/hawaii/fire-response-pearl-harbor-remembered-70-years-later)


The Honolulu Fire Department -- dispatched to Hickam Airfield to assist federal crews with multiple structure fires on Dec. 7, 1941 -- lost three firefighters that day.

Firefighters on duty noted their activities in a logbook. "8 a.m. Tel. alarm Hickam field, #4 Co. responded."

The entries, penned in longhand, continued: ".Rec'd 25 mattresses from Central. Dead at Hickam field fire were Captains Carriera + Macy, Pang, hoseman. Injured hosemen Kalihbane, P.J. McCabe, J. Gilman, Sol Naavao."




I wonder if the firemen lost that day have their names engraved at the Pearl Harbor memorial site? They should.

[RaceGrrl]

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

I don't think it's foolish to mourn those who gave all, but I certainly do thank God that they lived.

[SteveH]

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

I don't think it's foolish to mourn those who gave all, but I certainly do thank God that they lived.

indeed :thumbup:

[Napoleon]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8938657/The-70th-anniversary-of-the-Japanese-attack-on-Pearl-Harbour.html?image=14

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8938657/The-70th-anniversary-of-the-Japanese-attack-on-Pearl-Harbour.html?image=14

I missed this when you originally posted it. A hell of a picture.

[TravelGal]

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
- General George S. Patton, Jr

I don't think it's foolish to mourn those who gave all, but I certainly do thank God that they lived.


:thumbup: x2

[Gnam]

The local paper interviewed one of the last local surviving Pearl Harbor veterans. The guy was 17 at the time of the attack. He said his clearest memory was locking eyes with a Japanese machine gunner on a plane that was just 60 ft away. Hell of a way to start the morning.

It was a great story, but I wondered why they ran it yesterday. I'm such an idiot. At least I have some company. The veteran said a high school kid recently asked him where Pearl Harbor was.

[dando]

Big Mo.

http://news.cnet.com/2300-17938_105-10019095-1.html

[Napoleon]

I missed this when you originally posted it. A hell of a picture.

Here is the story on that pic which was not taken on the day of the attack:

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/12/12/9377669-pearl-harbor-surprise-photo-of-female-firefighters-wasnt-from-dec-7

[Gnam]

75 years have passed. The anger and hate have faded, but the day still lives in infamy.

It's hard to put 75 years into perspective. It's a long time. For the sailors on those ships that morning 76 years had passed since the end of the the Civil War, which was 78 years after the signing of the Constitution, which was 81 years after Benjamin Franklin was born an English subject in the English colonial town of Boston.

[dando]

75 years have passed. The anger and hate have faded, but the day still lives in infamy.

It's hard to put 75 years into perspective. It's a long time. For the sailors on those ships that morning 76 years had passed since the end of the the Civil War, which was 78 years after the signing of the Constitution, which was 81 years after Benjamin Franklin was born an English subject in the English colonial town of Boston.

I saw a piece on my Google Now feed that the Japanese PM is going to Pearl Harbor...the first official visit by a Japanese PM since the attack, but is not offering an apology. :flaming: :mad: :irked:

EDIT: linky https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/japanese-prime-minister-to-visit-pearl-harbor/2016/12/05/290c6a64-bad6-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html?utm_term=.5f7ee4a44e88

Also a PS: there was a charity collection to send a local survivor (there are only a few hundred remaining) to PH for the anniversary. :thumbup: