69 Years Ago Today Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941

[Parche]

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[jdlh8894]

1. Thank You!!!

My Dad and Uncle enlisted the next day. ( 17 @19 yo) May they be ever Blessed and Honored!

[kiva]

4. My dad too...

he said he was in a bar in Chicago when someone ran in and said "They bombed wahoo!" He spent the war in the Pacific, New Guinea and the Philippines...RIP Dad.

[Roon]

13. My grandfather went to enlist the day after too

the line was a mile long so he just went home and waited to be drafted.

[Loki]

16. My dad and his cousin

went down to the enlistment office Monday, December 8th and joined the Navy. Dad was on subs and my cousin Bill was on destroyers in the Pacific until the end of the war. My gratitude and appreciation for all those who served and returned and for those who are on Eternal Patrol. :patriot:

[HughBeaumont]

2. Grandpa was a Pearl Harbor Survivor.

When the bombs hit, he got blown out of his bunk and down the steps. Spent his 19th year in life pulling bodies out of the bloody water amidst chaos, explosions and screams. Originally a mechanic, he went on to fly from 1942-47, on D-Day and over the ETO. Had he been in the wrong place at the wrong time, I wouldn't be typing this.

Rest in Peace, Grandpa. 1922-2004

[CTyankee]

3. I was surprised at how moving it was to go to that memorial.

Seeing the still submerged Arizona in the water just shook me...it was a profoundly intense experience...

[jdlh8894]

5. The mast from the West Virginia

still stands PROUDLY on the WVU campus in Morgantown.
On edit: I hope she is being saluted today,as we did when I was there.

[Xenotime]

6. Why exactly?

[jdlh8894]

8. If I responded the way I'd like to your question (Thinking)

No,not going to go there!

[CTyankee]

11. Mostly, it was the horror of those sailors who drowned so terrifyingly.

Also, the wall of remembrance inside the memorial. The enormity of the attack just hit me...I was with my mother and she re-told me the story of where she and daddy were when they heard about the attack. I would like my grandkids to visit there...it would be good for them to at least "taste" our history by coming here...

[CTyankee]

12. Mostly, it was the horror of those sailors who drowned so terrifyingly.

Also, the wall of remembrance inside the memorial. The enormity of the attack just hit me...I was with my mother and she re-told me the story of where she and daddy were when they heard about the attack. I would like my grandkids to visit there...it would be good for them to at least "taste" our history by coming here...

[slackmaster]

15. My dad took my mom there in 1968. He went down the list of names, pointing at ones he had known.

He knew dozens of them.

[originalpckelly]

7. I've been there twice. It's the only place I've been other than CO.

Hawaii is beautiful, but I went there when I was a kid when my life wasn't totally shit.

Oil still seeps out of that thing.

[CJvR]

9. You can check out...

...Pearl Harbour on Google Earth. You can see the outlines of Arizona quite clearly from the air as well as the casemates of Utah on the other side of Ford Island.

[neverforget]

10. My dad's cousin was killed on the USS Oklahoma

RIP F3C George Jarding

[slackmaster]

14. My dad was on one of the first few boats to enter the harbor after the attack

He was on an oiler. The scene shocked him, and changed him for life.

I regard December 7 as the most solemn of days, even though I wasn't born until a little over 16 years later. That day changed everything, far more than did September 11, 2001 or any other day I have seen.

[WolverineDG]

17. My aunt & my step-grandmother both knew someone who died at Pearl Harbor

Don't see too many Pearl Harbor Survivor license plates anymore. :cry:

:patriot: to all who were there.

dg