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I was reading something that said prior to the attack many of our soldiers didn't believe Japan or their men were a serious threat or even a threat at all.  This was conjecture between young boys/men.  Boy where they wrong.  

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My favorite local Country music station mentioned 3 times from 7:15 to 8:00 AM that today was national letter writing day.  No mention of Pearl Harbor.   Is it taboo to talk about it now, or is the radio host too young to remember the significance?  Sad.😔

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1 minute ago, nepoweshiekfarmalls said:

My favorite local Country music station mentioned 3 times from 7:15 to 8:00 AM that today was national letter writing day.  No mention of Pearl Harbor.   Is it taboo to talk about it now, or is the radio host too young to remember the significance?  Sad.😔

Could be a bit of both?

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54 minutes ago, zleinenbach said:

Going to funeral home for my grandpa, so December 7th will have two wars started on it.... 

Had a neighbor boy who used to live down the road and today would have been his birthday but he passed away a while back

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I was bored sitting in second period at school and it dawned on me what today was. Not a mention that today is the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor from any teachers or classmates today. I talked with two friends about it after school. 

I remember about 6-8th grade on Pearl Harbor, 9/11, Memorial Day, and others we skipped daily lessons and talked about these events and there impacts. Now I’m in the 12th grade and every year it has seemed I hear about these historical days less and less. 

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It takes guys and gals like us to keep bringing it up, great post on a subject that might and could have thoughts about what goes on around us today, dats dat, don't want the boss to be put in a bad position.

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At work this morning I realized what day it was at least I thought. I thought I’ll look at the calendar on my phone to be sure. But no mention of it there. It’s got 20+ holidays I can’t even pronounce much less care about but they really left this out?!  This afternoon I did hear one am radio station talking about it for a minute or two but then I lost the signal. 

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Meant to post this today but haven't had time yet, till now.

 

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my mom was born today, in 1941 so i think about it every year, my great uncle served in WWII he was on the  USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) 

they were hit by a suicide plane and also by bombs that didnt explode which is crazy to me they almost had to abandon ship he told me but they made it thru and fought as much as they could to support on the way to get repairs. 

it was an aircraft carrier but not a huge one like some others he said they had planes on the ship,  they had quite a few hurt/killed cant remember numbers 

i am sure there is some crew list somewhere online that you could find him on or maybe pay for it, but its pretty cool that I got to talk to him about it, wish i would have asked more, he got a lil serious when I asked a couple times so didnt ask more. I was young but could tell it was a touchy subject. 

these were my family - my gma was audra - best gma ever!!! and yes he was my grt uncle but my dad was an only child so they were all close to me for that reason

they all called him Kit, and yes their mom my grt gma was minnie pearl!! - well not that one with the hat and the price tag but still.........kinda fun

 

 

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Old binder guy made mention of it late Monday night on'' IH Tractors on Montana Farm '' link. Also a few Pearl Harbor photo's, 1 hadn't seen before. comments/photos about WWII planes . interesting topic

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Thanks for acknowledging Pearl Harbor Day TwoStep.

I had read a couple of posts relating to it-------thought I had paid tribute.

My emoticon selection recently changed-------can no longer find a hand salute, thumbs up, nor Anerican flag.

So here is a big wave of all three in honor of Pearl Harbor and our WWII vets.

Thanks

 

DD

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Read a book "Resurrection" on the salvage of the Pearl Harbor fleet.  Very detailed,  enlightening,  and dry......but that effort is a huge and untold part of both the Pearl  Harbor disaster and the desperate attempts to get the fleet back in the war.  Some very intelligent people did a lot of work to salvage what they could......

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