12.07.05
A bit more serious today than most, but only because the 64th anniversary of sneak attack on Pearl Harbor deserves said solemnity:
- Fuzzy and Blue reflects many of my own sentiments regarding the Greatest Generation with the post: 64 Yrs Ago Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor
"As we remember the 64th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, I want to say thank you to my now deceased paternal & maternal grandfathers."
- The Tension remembers Pearl Harbor with some very neat links to:
- U.S. Navy’s overview and special images
- the National Geographic Multimedia Map and time line
- the USS Arizona Memorial
- and a story about how survivors to mark the Pearl Harbor Anniversary.
- Infamy of Praise is having a little to much fun with their Pearl Harbor Day Trivia
"What is not well-known, however, is that this memorable phrase was not the President’s initial choice. In an earlier draft of his speech, he referred to the day as ‘our generation’s 9/11′ …"
- Ordinary Everyday Christian lists both the U.S. and British response to this day that will live in infamy.
- Speaking of ordinary Christians, I meta-blog a few other links by some God bloggers over at blogs4God.
- Update … and speaking of metablogging … Michelle Malkin outdoes me with an excellent list of her own
Feel free to leave a comment with your own link and/or tribute.
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PEARL HARBOR: 64 YEARS
Why have so many chosen to forget? The Mobile Register reports that observances of the Pearl Harbor attack are down, in part because of Hurricane Katrina: While today marks the 64th anniversary of the Japanese attack on U.S. forces at…
Trackback by Michelle Malkin — 12.07.05 @ 11:19 am
I have some thoughts on the occasion: The Long War.
Comment by Rand Simberg — 12.07.05 @ 11:37 am
“This is not a drill!”
One of my favorite naval stories has always been that of the USS Nevada’s attempted sortie during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on the…
Trackback by Murdoc Online — 12.07.05 @ 11:40 am
A brief story that makes me look bad. Years ago, teaching at a college, had Japanese student in a freshman writing class. It was Dec 7. I noted the significance of the day to the class and then, turning to the Japanese girl, I asked what people in Japan did on that day to celebrate, lament, or honor that day. Silence.I lost face.
Comment by fred lapides — 12.07.05 @ 11:54 am
Remembering Pearl Harbor
It was sixty-four years ago today that the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor. I was still fourteen years away from grand entrance. My parents were both eight. One of the first full-length books I remember truely enjoying in grade school was …
Trackback by bRight & Early — 12.07.05 @ 12:01 pm
December 7 … Pearl Harbor Day, “a date which will live in infamy”
There will be a moment of silence at Pearl Harbor, HW at 7:55 am, the moment the Japanese attack began. Survivors, sailors and guests will be on hand to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the “date that will live in infamy.”
PEARL HAR…
Trackback by Scared Monkeys — 12.07.05 @ 12:17 pm
But for the incompetence of Admiral Kimmel and General Short, the defenses at Pearl would have been ready and the toll much lower. And if MacArthur had reacted earlier the Air Corps in the Philipeans would have been dispersed, keeping it available for the resistance to Japan instead of junk on the ground.
Comment by Walter E. Wallis — 12.07.05 @ 12:26 pm
Pearl Harbor Blogging
If you are interested in hearing how network radio broadcast the news of the attack, here are some MP3 files of broadcasts recorded on Dec. 7, 1941(poor audio quality, but interesting nonetheless): 2:28 PM (EST) First news bulletin broadcast over NBC R…
Trackback by Mike's Noise — 12.07.05 @ 12:31 pm
Walter “But for the incompetence of Admiral Kimmel and General Short …”
You mean like ‘protecting’ the aircraft by placing them in close proximity to each other in the middle of the air strip?-)
Comment by Mean Dean — 12.07.05 @ 12:35 pm
Pearl Harbor posting
Here’s a round-up of Pearl Harbor posts. Many of the links are, themselves, link-filled. Click, read, remember. Michelle Malkin: Pearl Harbor: 64 Years La Shawn Barber: The attack on Pearl Harbor remembered 64 years later…
Trackback by Winds of Change.NET — 12.07.05 @ 12:35 pm
My wife and I visited the Arizona Memorial last Memorial Day Sunday. It was a deeply moving experience. I used my original photos in my post.
Comment by Donald Sensing — 12.07.05 @ 12:41 pm
Thanks for the roundup, and the invitation. I have a post on the importance of ELINT and Information Operations to the Japanese forces in order to achieve surprise at Pearl Harbor.
Comment by Michael Puttre — 12.07.05 @ 12:46 pm
Today at the age of 82 I still remember Pearl harbor very well. The shock was total Monday morning Dec 8, I was at the recruiting office along with what seemed to be every young man in the small town I live in left for the military within a week.
Te need for personnel was so great that my recruit training was only four weeks.
Comment by jesse taub — 12.07.05 @ 12:59 pm
I’ve got this post up on ChicagoBoyz.
Comment by Lexington Green — 12.07.05 @ 1:08 pm
Pearl Harbor, and a Lesson - 2005 Edition
Today is Pearl Harbor Day. This is the battleship U.S.S. Arizona in the 1930s: And this is the U.S.S. Arizona and 1177 of her crew today: It would behoove our enemies — actual and potential — to realize that when the United States went to w…
Trackback by TacJammer — 12.07.05 @ 1:28 pm
Excellent post! If you’re interested, I’ve got a Pearl Harbor post on what happens to enemies who underestimate the American will to fight
Comment by Chris Christner — 12.07.05 @ 1:40 pm
http://countertop-chronicles.blogspot.com/2005/12/never-forget.html
54 years ago this morning, as my great Uncle Fred was returning aboard the USS Portland on a darkened flotilla en-route from Midway and two days out of Pearl Harbor, the little nip bastards struck.
Early in the morning of December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy issued a surprise attack on almost the entire the US Pacific Fleet while it lay in dock at Pearl Harbor.
At 6:00 a.m. an initial wave of 181 planes - including torpedo bombers, dive-bombers, horizontal bombers and fighters and kamikazi’s - launched from six Japanese carriers. They arrived at Pearl Harbor nearly two hours later and their surprise attach was so overwhelmingly devastating that a significant portion of the U.S. Fleet was destroyed.
Had it occurred today, the moon bats on the left would have demanded the impeachment of Roosevelt and urged Peace and “No Blood For Revenge.” Our women would have been turned into sexual slaves to the Japanese and the men who were allowed to survive would continue to be brutalized, tortured, and worked to death as the Imperial Japanese Army engaged in an orgy of rape, murder, theft, and arson.. Luckily though, America was a strong and mighty place in 1941 with a general population, a media, and most importantly politicians that possessed significantly more character and clarity of vision than we do today. Rather than scream for passive resistance or hear the delusions of a traitor - who was nominated to be president - calling our soldiers terrorists, the nation came together and focused on winning the war however long it took and at whatever cost (even if it meant declaring war on Nazi Germany, a regime that brutally murdered millions of innocent people but had not declared war or attacked the United States).
Comment by countertop — 12.07.05 @ 1:51 pm
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941
The 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy’s battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire’s so…
Trackback by Mark in Mexico — 12.07.05 @ 1:57 pm
I took a slightly different tack and jotted down some thoughts on Japan 1941 versus Japan 2005. One, an aggressive Empire that was the implacable enemy of the US and was bent on Asian hegemony. The other, a free and democratic friend and ally of the US, both is an example of Asian democracy and helps now in efforts to grow democracies abroad in Afghanistan and Iraq.
http://madminerva.blog-city.com/ramble_on_japan_on_a_historical_sort_of_day.htm
Comment by Mad Minerva — 12.07.05 @ 2:05 pm
Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, 1941 — Reflections
On December 7th, 1941, Japanese warplanes attacked Pearl Harbor drawing the United States into World War II.
World War II took years and cost over 400 thousand American soldiers. It required a national effort that included rationing of gasoline and o…
Trackback by California Conservative — 12.07.05 @ 2:06 pm
History reminds only if we remember . . .
“the Japanese had very real grievances….” — Noam Chomsky on Pearl Harbor (Which proves mainly that some people will live in infamy….) I’m not much of a “metablogger,” so I’ll leave it to La Shawn Barber and Michelle Malkin to…
Trackback by Classical Values — 12.07.05 @ 2:10 pm
Don’t know why I didn’t mention this in my post - but I’ve got a business thing in Hawaii this summer (yeah, I know, quit bragging).
While I’ll be locked inside of a building most of the time … gonna make some time to check out the U.S.S. Arizona, take pix and Flickr them for the rest of yaz.
Comment by Mean Dean — 12.07.05 @ 2:37 pm
This Day In History
Today’s date should ring some bells, even for those folks who are too young to remember the events of which I speak from personal experience. I imagine that they still teach 20th Century History in school these days.
Trackback by A Blog For All — 12.07.05 @ 2:56 pm
She has lots of relavant links as does La Shawn Barber.
Pingback by WMET Talk Back Blog — 12.07.05 @ 3:10 pm
A Date Which Will Live In Infamy
Today the battle-scarred, submerged remains of the battleship USS Arizona rest on the silt of Pearl Harbor, just as they settled on December 7, 1941. The ship was one of many casualties from the deadly attack by the Japanese on a quiet Sunday that Pr…
Trackback by Musing Minds — 12.07.05 @ 3:21 pm
I mean like not having air and sea patrols out, not responding to alert sightings likely because of earlier false alarms, and, yes, inappropriate dispersion of aircraft and ships. A ring of subs out 500 miles might have been a good idea, and we had the subs. Admirals and Generals live well. They should earn that luxury.
Comment by Walter E. Wallis — 12.07.05 @ 3:39 pm
For a temporarily gratis copy of the casualty list, ships, photos, etc., see http://www.japanorama.com/prj.html and click on Download E-books.
Comment by PacRim Jim — 12.07.05 @ 4:02 pm
Stories
…like no one should ever have. Joe, 93, and Angelina, 86, still remember three of their son’s first words: “Air raid, Mommy!”…
Trackback by The Coalition of the Swilling — 12.07.05 @ 4:49 pm
linked to my blog. My husband is a WWII vet…
Comment by boinkie — 12.07.05 @ 6:08 pm
Pearl Harbor + 64: The Submarine Stories
Sixty-four years ago today, the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor changed the face of World War II and, by bringing the US into the war as a full-fledged Allied power, altered the course of history.
Trackback by The Noonz Wire — 12.07.05 @ 6:16 pm
Lest We Forget
Explosion aboard USS Shaw, destroyed at Pearl Harbor. I’m ashamed of myself for not remembering to do a Pearl Harbor remembrance post in advance and then not being up to it last night. I had the honor of knowing one
Trackback by Small Town Veteran — 12.07.05 @ 7:05 pm
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
FrankS. scolds me for not blogging about this earlier. I’ll note two good round-ups of remembrances, one at La Shawn’s, the other at Michelle’s. Ordinary Everyday Christian recalls FDR’s and Churchill’s speeches on that black day. FDR’s is good. …
Trackback by Ace of Spades HQ — 12.07.05 @ 7:18 pm
Remember The Day Of Infamy
Reposted from December 7, 2005. Early on a quiet Sunday morning on December 7, 1941, aircraft of the Empire of Japan, without provocation or warning, attacked the United States forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Japanese attack left 2400 Americans dea…
Trackback by CALIFORNIA YANKEE — 12.07.05 @ 7:19 pm
I’ve posted this before. I still think it’s worth another look on this hallowed day.
Three years ago I was talking to my father on the phone about the significance of Pearl Harbor Day and 9-11. He told me something I hadn’t known. His brother was born on Dec. 7, 1923. He had turned 18 on the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. I did a little research and wrote this for my Dad.
December 7, 2002
Sixty-one years ago today a young man celebrated his eighteenth birthday. Little
did he know that date, his birthday, would become “A day of infamy”.
Six months later when he had graduated high school, he enlisted in the US
Army Air Corps and subsequently earned his wings as one of the youngest
fighter pilots in the Army Air Corps. In the next two years he progressed
from trainers to P-40 Warhawks and finally to the beautiful, twin engine P-38
Lightning fighter. During that time he also found time to marry his
high school sweetheart and, while serving in Italy escorting B-24 bombers, he
learned that he was soon to be a father.
In Jan. 1944 he had completed his tour and was waiting in Triola, Italy to
return to the States when a call came out for volunteers to fly escort for
another bombing raid over France. Fighters and pilots were scarce in those
days. Our bomber crews were getting hammered and our fighter pilots suffered
the same fate. He did not need to volunteer, but of course, like so many others,he cheerfully did his duty.
On January 27, 1944, over Salon de Provence, France their bomber group
encountered “a superior number of enemy fighters.”
From wingman 2nd Lt. R. E. Hoke: “Being greatly outnumbered by enemy fighters and unable to rejoin the Squadron, we took evasive action from the enemy fighters, by losing altitude. We dropped from 24,000 feet to the deck. By
this maneuver we lost the enemy fighters but encountered heavy ground gun
flak. Suddenly I felt a terrific concussion. After getting my airplane under
control, I looked back and the Lieutenant had disappeared from the
formation.”
The young Lieutenant’s P-38G just “disappeared” in the great explosion as
German antiaircraft gunners found their mark. His body was never recovered.
He was just 20 years old. He never held his newborn daughter. He never hugged his wife again.
He was only one of the many tens of thousands of American heroes over the
last two hundred or so years.
He was 2nd Lieutenant James G. Riley, Jr., USAAC, my Dad’s older, and only,
brother.
Sixty-one years ago today, Pearl Harbor Day, Jim turned eighteen. His whole life
was ahead of him yet he had barely two years to live. Those years he gave to
his country.
Thank God for all those brave men and women.
God protect our soldiers, sailors and airmen.
May we never forget.
Uncle Jim, we miss you………..
Comment by Jim Riley muskegon mi — 12.07.05 @ 8:52 pm
The President was ready to go to war, many claimed eager. As President, he was widely hated and criticized, especially by the press and the academic establishment….
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Comment by Peter Porcupine — 12.07.05 @ 9:18 pm
A Day Which Will Live In Infamy
Do you remember the significance of this day? Sixty-four years ago, Pearl Harbor was assaulted in a sneak attack by the Japanese.
Take a moment to remember our countrymen murdered on this day. Don’t let this day fade from our collective memory.
Trackback by reverse_vampyr — 12.08.05 @ 1:19 pm
64 years from the Pearl Harbor attack on December 8, 1941 (local December 7 in time). A Japanese army made a surprise attack to the United States Pacific Ocean fleet and the aviation station in the Pearl Harbor in the United States and Hawaii 64 years ago, and the Pacific War started. Neither mystery nor it is done to “Anniversary of starting the war” though a lot of people pray for peace at War Memorial Day. I pray for the peace of the world on this day every year. I wish the peace of the world.
Naoyuki Hamamura
Comment by Naoyuki Hamamura — 12.09.05 @ 8:30 pm
Those who condem us for dropping the A-Bomb on HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI have forgotted about PEARL HARBOR and the BATAAN DEATH MARCH
Comment by BIRDZILLA — 12.11.05 @ 8:10 pm