Commander backs standing for national anthem at Pearl Harbor

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Audrey Mcavoy, Associated Press
Updated 9:40 pm, Wednesday, December 7, 2016

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) U.S. Pacific Command Commander Adm. Harry Harris says those who served during the attack on Pearl Harbor never failed to stand for the national anthem.

His remarks Wednesday at a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack generated a lengthy standing ovation from the crowd, with people whistling and hooting.

Thousands gathered for the event, held on a pier across the harbor from where the USS Arizona sank during the 1941 attack.

"You can bet that the men and women we honor today and those who died that fateful morning 75 years ago never took a knee and never failed to stand whenever they heard our national anthem being played," Harris said to nearly a minute of clapping, whistles and whoops.




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Adm. Harry Harris

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You may be so moved you want to stand up while reading Admiral Harris' comments.

[msongs]

1. not surprising the military would hoot and holler at the military saying military things nt

[Judi Lynn]

2. He took the opportunity to point out that a certain black athlete DIDN'T stand for an anthem

and knelt down on one knee after the police went on a more intense murder spree of black civilians.

That's what the whooping was about, as conspicuous as it is.

[yuiyoshida]

3. I wonder how Native Hawaiians felt that day...

My grandparents and great grand parents were there in Hawaii, on that day, though I never heard a word about it from my parents, who they themselves were part Japanese and part Hawaiian native. It was their native genes, that prevented them from being carted off to the Internment camps. I wonder how they felt, when they saw their friends and neighbors being sent to the camps both on the mainland and in Hawaii. Were they relieved, that their Hawaiian blood saved them? I can't even imagine.

[Tactical Peek]

4. Fuck him.

Most of those who served during the attack on Pearl Harbor were enlisted men, and they just love for some admiral who wasn't there to tell them how they felt about the fucking national anthem.

Fuck him.

[samir.g]

5. This is the sort of jingoistic goon that trumpsters love

The military is full of them.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. He forgot to mention that the military was SEGREGATED on Dec. 7, 1941

and black WW2 soldiers like my father weren't allowed to be in THEIR presence.

[dembotoz]

7. How nice for him

And part of being a citizen is that I can disagree

[Kolesar]

8. I don't stand and sing or do a pledge of allegiance to a piece of cloth

I quit that during Reagan.

[YOHABLO]

9. Career military people see the world through a different prisim.

I understand Adm.Harris's pride as I also understand the anxiety of being a person of color in the U.S. It's wrong to denounce a person's freedom of speech. By the way the military was still segregated during WWII.

[Raine]

10. Fine for him, that's his choice but not everyone chooses like him

and it's their right not to..