Pearl Harbor Remembrance day

[CouesWhitetail]

Please take some time to remember those military who served on Dec 7 1941. We lost about 2400 American lives that day. Only a few survivors of that attack remain. Please remember that freedom isn't free....

[elk77hunter]

+ 1 Amanda. I was fortunate enough to meet 3 of them last summer on memorial day at Pearl Harbor. What a great experience i will remember forever. The memorial leaves me speechless every time I go.

[billrquimby]

I seldom listen to Glen Beck, but I did catch his broadcast today and heard him tell about a school cafeteria somewhere that served Japanese food to commemorate Pearl Harbor Day. I was so angry I could spit.

 

I was only five years old on Sunday, December 7, 1941, but I still can remember listening to the radio reports that day and reading (I could read newspapers at age 4) the Yuma Daily Sun's articles on Monday about that attack in Hawaii.

 

My father joined the Seabees the next day and by the end of the week was in a boot camp in California. He spent the duration in the Philippines and New Guinea, and I did not see him again until after the war. Sadly, the 2,400 Americans killed at Pearl Harbor were only the beginning. Hundreds of thousands more Americans died at the hands of the Japanese in that war.

 

Some of my friends lost their fathers, older brothers or uncles, and I grew up hearing and reading about the hundreds of barbaric Japanese atrocities all across the South Pacific and Asia.

 

As a result I have never forgotten how brutally the Japanese treated their prisoners, the Chinese and the residents of all the islands they invaded. It makes my blood boil to realize that today's kids are taught how terrible America was to drop atomic bombs on Japanese cities and are not told why it was necessary and how many American lives were saved because of those bombs.

 

Everyone knows about the Holocaust in Europe, but how many have heard about the many Japanese war crimes? The following is from Wikipedia:

 

"It may be pointless to try to establish which World War Two Axis aggressor, Germany or Japan, was the more brutal to the peoples it victimised. The Germans killed six million Jews and 20 million Russians; the Japanese slaughtered as many as 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Indonesians and Burmese, at least 23 million of them ethnic Chinese. Both nations looted the countries they conquered on a monumental scale, though Japan plundered more, over a longer period, than the Nazis. Both conquerors enslaved millions and exploited them as forced labourers—and, in the case of the Japanese, as [forced] prostitutes for front-line troops. If you were a Nazi prisoner of war from Britain, America, Australia, New Zealand or Canada (but not Russia) you faced a 4% chance of not surviving the war; [by comparison] the death rate for Allied POWs held by the Japanese was nearly 30%."

 

Seventy years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, I still will not knowingly buy an automobile or any big-ticket item made by a company whose profits are returned to that accursed island.

 

Bill Quimby

[#1huntinfool]

It was a sad, sad thing that war was, but just think if it did not happen the jews would not be in there homeland today. So there is a reason for everything.

Enjoyed the post Bill thanks

[.270]

hey Bill, it wasn't just some school. it was the school obama's kids go to. i've known a lotta WWII vets and a couple who were at pearl harbor that day. quite a deal. the japanese were some sick folks. anybody that reads this, read up on the "rape of nanking". google it or see if you can watch some of the documentaries on it. they fueled a power plant there with human bodies. after they had gassed and poisoned em and then did live autopsies on em with no sedative, to see how the gas and poison worked. did some really extensive studies on the chinese population of nanking. they were so good at it that after the war the US tried to protect a lotta the bad guys that did they studies because they wanted to pick their brains about the results. there were japanese armies in burma and it seems like maybe madagascar that didn't worry about packing food with them because they just killed the natives and ate them. i've also known a couple bataan survivors over the years. they suffered till the day they died. pearl harbor, bataan, the many pacific campaigns took a tremendous amount of American lives and our soldiers suffered horribly. but i think what they did to china and the other asian populations was even worse. the stories about the what they did to the koreans turn your stomach. it's good to remember, because once you forget, it doesn't matter anymore. and this kinda stuff needs to matter. Lark.

[Hank]

My thanks to everyone for their service both past and present!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[billrquimby]

hey Bill, it wasn't just some school. it was the school obama's kids go to. ... it's good to remember, because once you forget, it doesn't matter anymore. and this kinda stuff needs to matter. Lark.

 

 

Wow! It makes me wonder how much Queen Michelle had to do with planning that cafeteria's menu, with her being such a nutritionist and all.

 

As for not forgetting, the problem is we old farts are dropping dead every day and our youngsters are not being told what the Japanese did to Americans -- and could do again.

 

I am reminded of it every time I see friends driving their Jap cars and trucks. It makes no difference if those things were assembled in the States. Just follow the money and you'll find it is going to people who killed many hundreds of thousands of Americans in the most horrible of ways.

 

Bill Quimby