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Pearl Harbor (NEVER FORGET)

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    • Today is the anniversary of one of the biggest attacks on U.S. soil. Let us never forget the lives that were lost that day.

    Survivors to Mark Pearl Harbor Anniversary

    From Associated Press
    December 06, 2005 11:36 PM EST
    PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - Survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor will join sailors, community leaders and guests on Wednesday for the 64th anniversary of the assault.

    The crowd will observe a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m. - the moment the attack began in 1941.

    A U.S. Navy ship will honor the USS Arizona, which lies submerged in Pearl Harbor with the bodies of hundreds of sailors still aboard. The Hawaii Air National Guard will fly F-15s in formation over the harbor.
    The Navy's chief uniformed officer, Adm. Michael G. Mullen, is scheduled to address the crowd along with Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, who saw and heard Japanese planes drop bombs on Oahu as a teenager in Honolulu.
    Navy reservists from the USS Ward, which fired the first shots of the war when its crew spotted and sank a Japanese midget submarine, will also be honored.

    The Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and other military bases on Oahu lasted two hours, leaving 21 U.S. ships heavily damaged and 323 aircraft damaged or destroyed.

    It killed 2,390 people and wounded 1,178
     
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    I'm not real big on a lot of the tourist stuff, but going to the Arizona Memorial is a must if any of you get out here. The artifacts and personal stories provide a real sense of what happened. In fact, I have family that lives in that area, and just driving in the general vicinity on a Sunday morning makes you realize how fast lives can change.
     
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    808 Buck said:
    I'm not real big on a lot of the tourist stuff, but going to the Arizona Memorial is a must if any of you get out here. The artifacts and personal stories provide a real sense of what happened. In fact, I have family that lives in that area, and just driving in the general vicinity on a Sunday morning makes you realize how fast lives can change.
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    It is definately a moving experience at Pearl Harbor, been there a couple times. I've also been to Normandy - Pointe du hac and Omaha beach several times. The American cemetary there is absolutely awe inspiring and it really gets to you. I think its the peacefullness of both places and the knowing what happened in each place that takes a hold on you. I am planning a treck back to Omaha beach on June 6, 2006 - 6/6/6 - and I don't really know why but it is something my mind has told me to do since I first visited Omaha beach in 1974.
     
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    808 Buck said:
    I'm not real big on a lot of the tourist stuff, but going to the Arizona Memorial is a must if any of you get out here.
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    Oh yeah...I was amazed when I visited the Arizona memorial. Another must-see is the Punch Bowl Cemetary. We were there on Memorial Day, and it was simply incredible. If you can't be moved at least a tiny bit at either place, you're probably insane.
     
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    I work in one of the few buildings that were on Hickam Field (now Hickam Air Force base) at the time of the attack. If you click on the "General Images Prior To The Attack" link in jwin's post above and then click on the fourth photo down ("October 1941, Aerial view of the entire harbor"), you'll be able to make out the large enlisted barracks that was gutted during the attack, and is now the headquarters building of the Pacific Air Forces. To see the building:

    1. Expand the photo to full view, and look in the top left portion
    2. Locate to wide runway (down and right from the "1941" text)
    3. Locate the five pairs of hangars in a row running parallel to the right of the runway (there's a gap between the bottom pair and the top four pair)
    4. Next to the bottom two pairs of hangars in the four-pair group, you'll see a building looking like a square spider
    5. That square spider looking building is it

    The building has of course been repaired and somewhat modernized (air conditioning, modern-style storm windows, etc.) but the exterior battle damage to the building (bullet holes, shrapnel gouges) remain intact and are prohibited from being repaired in order to preserve the memory of the attack.
     
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    It's Pearl Harbor Day again. I was driving in to work today and on my talk show was a gentleman by the name of Lee Soos. He was a pharmacist corpsman on one of the first ships to get torpedoed in Pearl Harbor. He talked about how he ran to his battle station, only to get there and find it seeping and filling up with water already. How as he arrived the call to battle stations changed to a call to abandon ship. How he fell over trying to get to the ladder as a concussion of a second or third torpedo hit the ship. How as he left the ship he had to get away from the suction of it going under. How he arrived on shore only to immediately rush to set up a first aid station as wounded soldiers were already waiting with bullet wounds and severe burns from having swim thru lakes of burning oil and fuel floating on the surface of the water.

    He talked about taking his children, and grandchildren, to Hawaii next year for the Survivors Association meeting and that he will be carrying with him a piece of ship shrapnel he picked up outside of his aid station so long ago. That he will be donating it, with his two generations of children beside him, to the museum down there.

    Thank you to all of you grandparents and great-grandparents who fought and died for us. And to those of you who survived to tell the tale and remind us all what the others fought and died for.
     
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    My father and all his brothers(3) fought in WWII. All made it home although one brother had 3 ships sunk under him! And my own father was left for dead. One can only begin to imagine the horror of your ship sinking at sea.....but 3 times? That brother went mad and had to be released to my father after the war.
    God Bless You, members of The Greatest Generation.
     
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    One month away...

    Big game is a month from today. But let's not forget, over all the hype and excitement for the game, that today is the 66th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. So if you anyone that's a vet or is currently serving, thank them for what they did or what they continue to do.
     
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    The Dec. 7, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor and those who lost their lives that day are being remembered Wednesday on the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack that brought the U.S. into World War II.

    Slideshow (16 photos): http://news.yahoo.com/photos/70th-anniversary-of-pearl-harbor-1323186385-slideshow/

    Entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/pearl-harbor-attack-remembered-70th-anniversary-080816486.html


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    http://www.nps.gov/valr/planyourvisit/feesandreservations.htm

    http://www.pearlharboroahu.com/
     
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