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Great reminder of bravery.
I am very glad to see this post. I was just looking at the news (for the first time today) and was suddenly aware that something was really missing. I was horrified. As if this had been forgotten.
Check and you’ll see. No mention anywhere. Quite as if this did not, in fact, prove to be a day that would live in infamy.
This does really seem to be one of the few places left where people haven’t totally lost their minds.
I woke up today, happened to check the date on my computer, and said to myself “That’s right, it’s December 7th”. And I paused for a few seconds, and thought about it. Even us relatively young punks remember, sometimes. I kept it in mind on a run later in the morning, 18 degrees out, balky knee, and remembered not to complain or whine to myself about conditions. It’s just wrong to complain.
Bing hasn’t forgotten. The website, not the crooner.
Thank you for posting this. I had never heard this story of such a brave man before.
I read this post today and then shared it with my husband. There aren’t many of these brave men left who were there that day. I hope and pray we never forget their courage, their honor and their plain guts. Thank you for posting this.
Great story, and a great way to remember Pearl Harbor.
Great story. Thanks. I too looked for some mention in the “press.” Nothing.
I celebrate Pearl Harbor because my friend’s dad survived: counterfactual: no friend.
This date also causes me to reflect on my belief that but for Pearl Harbor the battleship admirals would have run the Pacific show for awhile, and likely our VJ day would be celebrated on a later date each year.
My great-grandfather, William Alexander Vance (1898-1974), was a cook on the USS Phoenix. My dad still repeats what he told him: “I was standing on deck smoking a cigarette thinking about what I wanted to do with my Sunday when those Japs decided what I would be doing every Sunday for the next four years.”
Pastor included a remembrance and a special petition in the General Prayer of the Church this morning.
I was pleased by that.
But for Enterprise being somewhere else, and Midway, etc….but yes, you’re absolutely correct. Good example of fighting the current war using the strategies of the last one. It was pretty clear after a few months post-Pearl that battleships were much more targets than offensive weapons (aside from shore bombardments and the like).
Thanks Jon. I always try to remember to read Miller’s story on this day. Later I’ll read the Doolittle’s Raid story again. Our troops were (and are) the best in the world.
Only 9 remaining survivors from the USS Arizona, but the reunited today in Hawaii.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/07/pearl-harbor-survivors-reunite-in-hawaii-to-mark-73rd-anniversary-attack/
Bless them.
Thanks for that, Jon, I wouldn’t have known where that picture was taken, I too trod those same boards Oct.’64 – Jan ’66. As I understood it, a lot of those building were from WWI. At the time Pearl Harbor seemed like ancient history until my ship was moored up in the West Loch and I could see rusting hulks across the way that were still there from the attack 25 years earlier.
The CBS Sunday Morning show did a little feature on the reunion as well.
It was a surprise to see a large photo of Dorie Miller on Ricochet. My first ship was FF1091 USS Miller; we all knew the story and saw his photo on the quarterdeck bulkhead every day. Actually, it was a lousy photo – didn’t do Miller justice. The one you published here is much better.
Thanks for remembering Pearl Harbor and Miller’s heroic actions.