remember

[charlie cleveland]

remember pearl harbor today....lots of lives lost this day....been 70 years.... with respect... charlie

[J.B. Books]

Here is the list of the 2402 soldiers, sailors and airmen who perished 70 years ago today. Each one had approximately 50 years of life stolen from him by a sneak attack.

http://www.usswestvirginia.org/ph/phlist.php

[Big D]

One of my first girlfriends (over 50 years ago) was the granddaughter of Husband E. Kimmel, the commander of Pearl Harbor when it was bombed. The family sure didn't have anything good to say about FDR - they were convinced that he was aware of the imminent attack, and did not alert Kimmel.

[StubTwist]

My thoughts today are with the families of those who are still aboard the "Arizona". 70 years ago they gave all so that we could have the freedoms we have today. And we don't have to speak German or Japanese.

[King Brown]

To me remembering is the easy part. We honour our veterans of all wars by voting, participating in our communities, contributing to a true standard of human values to those around us.

Those who served, died and were wounded were generally not prepared militarily and psychologically for war---"adolescents" in many respects. The war was largely fought by the US Army with 17, 18, 19-year-olds.

I don't think of their sacrifices as stolen years. They shared a belief in a common purpose (how many of us do today?) and that they represented the best country in the world. Their sacrifices gave us more than they could have imagined.

Sacrifice is giving up something for the sake of something higher. They did that. They were barely men doing bravely a man's job. These things we tend to forget. They fought a truly professional army and won.

Of the millions the US sent overseas, only 14 per cent were infantrymen. They took more than 70 per cent of battle casualties among overseas troops. See "The Boys' Crusade" by the distinguished US soldier and academic Paul Fussell.

[Robert Delk]

My mother's then boyfriend was killed at Pearl Harbor. I always wondered who the handsome guy was in a pilots uniform and when I finally asked,my dad told me not to ever ask my mom about "Pete" as it was something she could not forget.She could never forgive the Japanese or ever trusted their government again.

[Carl Erickson Jr]

A friend of mine who was a Social Studies teacher in middle school always gave a unannounced test on 7 December.