70 years ago today

old · Dec 7, 2011

Remember those who died for this country 70 years ago when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
No one else posted about ti figured I better lest we forget

Anonymous-0 · Dec 7, 2011

Thank you for posting this Old. I have been thinking about Pearl Harbor, etc. all day.

Glenn F.
WE WI

LenND · Dec 7, 2011

Thanks! After our generation most of that stuff won't be remembered anymore. I wonder if they even study that in school anymore.

Ultradog MN · Dec 7, 2011

I did last night.
Here

GeneMO · Dec 7, 2011

I have been reading about it in the papers and there was a good bit on the TV news. Local flags are all at half staff.. The limp peck** club guys down drinking coffee at McDonalds were all talking about it.

The Sedalia paper had about 6 interviews from local folks who were there.

There were bad times then. A different sort of bad times now. Back then we could all pull together and whip the problem. Now everyone thinks they are owed something and dont want to sacrifice or work. We have a system that punishes hard work and rewards laziness and whinners.

We may be in more peril now than then.

Gene

Anonymous-0 · Dec 7, 2011

NE WI

oldtanker · Dec 7, 2011

(quoted from post at 15:12:31 12/07/11) I have been reading about it in the papers and there was a good bit on the TV news. Local flags are all at half staff.. The limp peck** club guys down drinking coffee at McDonalds were all talking about it.

The Sedalia paper had about 6 interviews from local folks who were there.

There were bad times then. A different sort of bad times now. Back then we could all pull together and whip the problem. Now everyone thinks they are owed something and dont want to sacrifice or work. We have a system that punishes hard work and rewards laziness and whinners.

We may be in more peril now than then.

Gene

I don't know Gene, right after 9/11 the recruiters couldn't keep up with the number of volunteers just like right after Dec 7, 1941, later in the war they had to draft. This time it was offer big bonuses later because there is no draft. Sure we got some lazy people today who don't think they owe anyone or anything but think we owe them a living.....back then it was work or starve or close to it. But there are still some hard working Americans out there who can be counted on to step up when needed.

Thank God for the men and women who stepped up back then and those who are still stepping up today!

Rick

Gun guru · Dec 7, 2011

My Granddad was a Major in the Army air corps at that time, Pilot too. My dad was a 14 month old baby and on that fateful day my grandparents were sitting down for Sunday dinner at my great grandparents house and my grandfather got a call from his commanding officer...."you need to get to base" "The 8aps bombed the Pearl Harbor Naval base" My granddad was sent to run an airforce base in Florida and train pilots. My granddad was 28 on that day 12-7-41. When the war ended my granddad was a Lt. Colonel. He died in 1998. He had a very impressive Funeral ceremony given by the local VFW. I do miss him very much, 15 minutes after my wife and I got married in 1995 my granddad looked me straight in the eye and said, "you need to get busy getting me a great grandson" Well I did but my boy was born in 2001, too late for him to be seen by my granddad.

old · Dec 7, 2011

I will not post it here but I can tell you some bad stuff going on in the military now days and it is a very sad goings on If you want the info e-mail me but it is a sad fact that they are not letting to common people know about

old · Dec 7, 2011

Well since no one else did I figured before it got to late I better post it. Being a proud Navy vet I can feel for those before and after me and we as a country are heading for trouble unless things change

petetx · Dec 7, 2011

maybe somebody remembers the poster on every baracks wall that mentioned court martial offenses I guess they will have to remove one of them?

dr sportster · Dec 7, 2011

I've been waiting all week for it. Just posted about it on tool talk. Trouble is 4 out of 5 cars are made in Japan so who really won the war ?

Marc_FL · Dec 7, 2011

My father fought in the Pacific and my grandmother worked in a defense plant..

I think the big difference today is that we went from a manufacturing based economy back then to a service sector economy today.

old · Dec 7, 2011

As I said I will not go in to it here but a lot of it is simple stupid stuff that there is no rime or reason and no posters either.

donjr · Dec 7, 2011

My dad was on active training duty in the army reserve when the Japanese hit Pearl. He landed on Ascension Is. in the south Atlantic on March 14, 1942, and built an airfield under the lend-lease act with Great Britain. The air corps then flew fighters from Brazil to there, and on to another airbase in the Belgian Congo, which they built in late 1942, and then on to North Africa, where he built airfields as they chased Rommel across the desert. He took a round in North Africa, and was sent home and made a "90 day wonder". He returned to England in May of 1944,landed on Omaha on June 11, and headed a truck company across France and into Belgium. After VE day, they were told to pack up and get ready to go to Saipan for the invasion of Japan. Don't ever believe atomic weapons didn't put an end to WWII. Without that devastating firepower, the Japanese were planning to fight to the last, and take out as many of us as they could. It was estimated the casulties would approach 2,000,000 to end the war. And the Japanese still claim they didn't start anything!

donjr · Dec 7, 2011

Footnote- In memory of Sgt. Frank Cassel, my uncle who died at St.Lo, France in July 1944 and rests at the American Cemetary at Normandy.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 7, 2011

Old, not to steal your post, I posted it over in tractor tales this morning. Thanks to our vets, and fighting boys, everywhere.

DownSouth · Dec 7, 2011

I took my 88 Y.O. WWII Vet Dad to the VA today for an appointment. I was pleased to see their flags at half mast, and maybe it was just a coincidence but it seemed the employees were especially friendly and helpful today!

37chief · Dec 7, 2011

A nother good time to remember those who are serving our country now. From what I am hearing things are a lot different than when I was in the Navy.I wasen't alive at the time of the start of the war, but remember my Mom , and Dad telling me where they were when they heard of the attack on Peral Harbor. My Dad was 35 at the start of WW2. He may have been a little old at the time. Plus he was a farmer raising food to help the war effort. I am sure a lot of service men, and a few women ate his lima beans. Stan

old · Dec 7, 2011

Ya military life today is not any thing like it was back when I was in. In the barracks I was in there was one soda machine one or 2 snack machines and then 3 or more beer machines but now days they have maybe a soda machine ans a snack machine but no beer machines plus a few other things few people know or understand

Ultradog MN · Dec 7, 2011

My dad spoke of it like it was yeaterday. He had left Aitkin MN to go to an uncle in San Francisco 3 months before chasing work. He and a cousin were walking across the Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday morning. Bridge was only 8 years old and still quite a modern marvel. Cheap entertainment for a poor 19 yo hick on a Sunday morning after Mass. Passers by and automobilists shouted the news.
They went across then had to walk back. Double timed it on the way home. Scared the J---s could blow the bridge. No one knew what was next.
6 weeks later he was in the Army. Wore glasses so he couldn't join the Navy. Did his time in the Army Signal Corps on telephone poles hooking up wires. All well behind the lines but kept leapfrogging throughout the Pacific.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 7, 2011

my dad went in jan of 42 ,, they kept sendin him west,, 1st stop, ft chaffe ?ark , then out to the mojave desert for tank trainin ,, then to pearl harbor , helped clean up there , he was in 4 different island campains, was injured more than twice ,always ended up at honolulu .... mustered out nov 45 ,, lived a full life until au, 2008 ,, i wrote posted his euloy in YOUR STORIES ,, Dad was quite a man

37chief · Dec 7, 2011

We didn't have beer in our barricks, in the Philippines, but with the EM Club a couple blocks away with .05 cent a bottle of San Miguel who needed it. I'll bet they would haul you in now if you were found passed out on the ground on your way back to the barricks. How times change.Stan

old · Dec 7, 2011

Haul you in nope now days they kick you out for such thing and even less then that

Stevemo · Dec 7, 2011

My dad joined right after pearl harbor.He had to have the guy in front of him pee in a cup,so he would pass his phsical. Dad had kidney disease.He was on the battleship u.s.s. California.He was an underwater welder.Dad died in 1976 athe age of 54,while he was runnig on dialasis machine.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 7, 2011

TAKE ANOTHER DRANK AND YOU WILL BE ALL
RIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!

John Harmon · Dec 7, 2011

Not 70 years ago but close, RIP Robert L. Harmon,Cpl. USMC,9th Marines, KIA Feb.19th, 1945,3rd assault wave on Iwo Jim.Buried at National Memorial Cemetery,Lebanon Kentucky,May 1945.He was my dads 1st. cousin.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 8, 2011

For all those who gave, and for those that gave all we are forever in your debt, still the land of the free, home of the brave, one nation under God and still the greatest nation on the face of the earth, u bet your sweet a$$ we are

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