"A date which will live in infamy"

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

And it still does. But now our former enemy is our friend and our former friends (if they ever were) are our enemies. Strange world we inhabit. I pray for peace but fear it is not to be.
Today I think of those who gave so much to give my generation such a long period of relative peace and to those who made it back home life itself.

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[browningautorifle]

I think of them every day...

[Ovidio]

Although we were on the other side, I recognise the right one and understand your feelings. And share them.
No “virgins” then, but some were less “virgins” than others. And those were us.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Unfortunately war is with us always due to our fallen nature. Reconciliation (as in the case for the WWII belligerents) is the best we get.

[Flying10uk]

It was an unforgivable act of aggression on a neutral country but it could have been quite a bit worse.

It seems sad and somewhat concerning that some of the younger generation appear completely ignorant of what happened in WW2 or even when it occurred.

[rcathey]

I work in a production facility with a majority African American work force.
I conduct a “morning huddle” every morning and today shared a quick blurb about Doris Miller. It was fun to see the guys react to history in a way that they could identify with.

[browningautorifle]

Doris Miller

He's even portrayed in "Tora, Tora, Tora" and the later "Pearl Harbor"...Cuba Gooding I think.

[rcathey]

He's even portrayed in "Tora, Tora, Tora" and the later "Pearl Harbor"...Cuba Gooding I think.

Yup, Cuba Gooding Jr. I pointed that bit of trivia out and they pretty much collectively said, “oh, that was a real guy!?” Haha

[browningautorifle]

“oh, that was a real guy!?”

Yeah, typical...I've had some of those discussions too.

[CINDERS]

I stood on the Arizona memorial in the '90's and it was a very eerie and solemn feeling knowing what was beneath the waves, I don't think it really prepares you for that great marble wall with all those names of the fallen service personnel from that day it was pretty moving.
The irony of when I was there that there was a throng of Japanese tourists going every which way happy snapping and so on was just perplexed over the whole thing!

The most prophetic words ever spoken in history was by admiral Yamamoto after the raid ~ "I fear we have awoken a sleeping giant."

America exacted its revenge with a flight of P-38's that in a specific targeted attack shot down and killed Yamamoto in a plane he was a passenger in on the 18th April 1943 Code named ~ Operation Vengeance.