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    On this the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, we remember all those that are still entombed there and their shipmates!
    We are here because they are there!
    It seems as each year goes by, more and more lessons of history are forgotten!

    Our fearless leader's children's private school is observing the day by serving Japanese food for lunch!

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    Originally posted by NavyDoc View Post
    On this the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, we remember all those that are still entombed there and their shipmates!
    We are here because they are there!
    It seems as each year goes by, more and more lessons of history are forgotten!

    Our fearless leader's children's private school is observing the day by serving Japanese food for lunch!
    This is a joke , yes ???

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    • #3
      Originally posted by tankie View Post
      This is a joke , yes ???
      I wish...

      Sidwell Friends School, Sasha and Malia Obama's School, Opts For Asian, including Japanese Food On Pearl Harbor Day | wusa9.com
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      • #4
        The Japanese are observing this day as well by telling everyone that it never happened or we made them attack us because we wouldn't give them things. If you ever get the chance to to watch the documentary about Nanking and the other Japanese atrocities during WWII you will be shocked to find a picture taken of a Japanese private bayoneting a civilian and the interview with that very private saying he didn't do it as do many of the Japanese soldiers who did things like this. Sorry, no love lost for the Japanese.
        Last edited by Tanker; 07 Dec 11,, 21:00.

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        • #5
          I think Obama may yet loose the election - WTF :insane:
          sigpic"If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
          If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children."

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          • #6
            So are the Japanese having school kids having oversized fat belching macdonalds and cream cakes for Pearl Harbour day that never happened , same as the holocaust that never happened , Hey Ob'uma the worlds flat n the moon is made of cheese :bang::bang::bang: It should along with the holocaust , NEVER BE FORGOTTEN :pari:

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            • #7
              Originally posted by NavyDoc View Post
              On this the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, we remember all those that are still entombed there and their shipmates!
              We are here because they are there!
              It seems as each year goes by, more and more lessons of history are forgotten!

              Our fearless leader's children's private school is observing the day by serving Japanese food for lunch!
              How insensitive. Did they not consider the feelings of the families of the dead? Did they not consider the feelings of the American People?

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              • #8
                Pearl Harbor survivors return to ships after death........

                Dec 7, 3:02 AM (ET)

                By AUDREY McAVOY

                HONOLULU (AP) - Lee Soucy, who lived to be 90 after surviving the attack on Pearl Harbor, is finally back with his shipmates 70 years later.

                Soucy passed away just last year. On Tuesday, seven decades after dozens of fellow sailors were killed when the USS Utah sank on Dec. 7, 1941, Navy divers took a small urn containing his ashes and put it in a porthole of the ship.

                The ceremony is one of five memorials being held this week for servicemen who lived through the assault and want their remains placed in Pearl Harbor out of pride and affinity for those they left behind.

                "They want to return and be with the shipmates that they lost during the attack," said Jim Taylor, a retired sailor who coordinates the ceremonies.


                The memorials are happening the same week the country observes the 70th anniversary of the aerial bombing that killed 2,390 Americans and brought the United States into World War II. A larger ceremony to remember all those who perished will be held Wednesday just before 8 a.m. Hawaii time - the same moment the devastating attack began.

                Most of the 12 ships that sank or were beached that day were removed from the harbor, their metal hulls salvaged for scrap. Just the Utah and the USS Arizona still lie in the dark blue waters. Only survivors of those vessels may return in death to their ships.

                The cremated remains of Vernon Olsen, who served aboard the Arizona, will be interred on his ship during a sunset ceremony Wednesday. The ashes of three other survivors are being scattered in the harbor.

                Soucy, the youngest of seven children, joined the Navy out of high school so he wouldn't burden his parents. In 1941, he was a pharmacist mate, trained to care for the sick and wounded.

                He had just finished breakfast that Sunday morning when he saw planes dropping bombs on airplane hangars. He rushed to his battle station after feeling the Utah lurch, but soon heard the call to abandon ship as the vessel began sinking. He swam to shore, where he made a makeshift first aid center to help the wounded and dying. He worked straight through for two days.

                The Utah lost nearly 60 men on Dec. 7, and about 50 are still entombed in the battleship. Today, the rusting hull of the Utah sits on its side next to Ford Island, not far from where it sank 70 years ago.

                Soucy's daughter, Margaret, said her parents had initially planned to have their ashes interred together at their church in Plainview, Texas. But her father changed his mind after visiting Pearl Harbor for the 65th anniversary in 2006.

                "He announced that he wanted to be interred on the Utah. And my mother looked a little hurt and perplexed. And I said, 'Don't worry Daddy, I'll take that part of your ashes that was your mouth and I'll have those interred on the Utah. And you can then tell those that have preceded you, including those that were entombed, what's been going on in the world,'" Margaret Soucy recalled saying with a laugh.

                "'And the rest of your remains we will put with mother in the church gardens at St. Mark's.' And then my sister spoke up and said, 'Yes, then mother can finally rest in peace,'" she said.

                The family had long kidded Soucy for being talkative _they called him "Mighty Mouth" - so Margaret Soucy said her father laughed and agreed. "He just thought that was hilarious," she said.

                "So that is what we are doing. We're taking only a portion of his ashes. It's going to be a small urn," she said.

                Soucy's three children, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren - 11 family members altogether - attended the sunset ceremony on Tuesday. His wife died earlier this year.

                Amid overcast skies, a Navy diver took the urn, protected by a mesh bag, and held it above water while swimming toward the Utah. The diver, who was accompanied by three supporting divers, went underwater to the porthole once reaching the ship.

                An urn carrying the ashes of Vernon Olsen, who was among the 334 on the Arizona to survive the attack, will be interred in a gun turret on the ship Wednesday. Most of the battleship's 1,177 sailors and Marines who died on Dec. 7 are still entombed on the ship.

                Five months after Pearl Harbor Olsen was on the USS Lexington aircraft carrier when it sank during the Battle of the Coral Sea.

                "I used to tell him he had nine lives. He was really lucky," said his widow, Jo Ann Olsen.

                He passed away in April at the age of 91 after a bout of pneumonia.

                Pearl Harbor interment and ash scattering ceremonies began in the late 1980s, and started growing in number as more survivors heard about them.

                Taylor has helped 265 survivors return to Pearl Harbor. The vast majority have had their ashes scattered. He's arranged for the remains of about 20 Arizona survivors to be placed in the Arizona and about a dozen to be put in the Utah.

                "These guys are heroes, OK. Fact is, in my opinion, anybody that's ever served in the military and wore the uniform are heroes. That's why you and I can breathe today in a free country. So I just appreciate what they did," he said.


                iWon News - Pearl Harbor survivors return to ships after death
                Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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                • #9
                  A Nation pauses.......

                  Nation pauses to remember Pearl Harbor
                  By the CNN Wire Staff
                  updated 1:42 AM EST, Wed December 7, 2011

                  The commemoration at the Pearl Harbor visitor center will include a rifle salute and wreath presentations.

                  This year's commemoration marks 70 years since December 7 attacks on Oahu
                  The attack ushered the United States into World War II
                  Pearl Harbor Survivors Association is disbanding this month

                  (CNN) -- Survivors of the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor will remember the 2,400 people who lost their lives 70 years ago Wednesday.

                  The annual commemoration in Hawaii begins at 7:40 a.m. (12:40 p.m. ET ) at the Pearl Harbor visitor center.

                  About 3,000 guests will witness a rifle salute, wreath presentations and recognition of those who died, according to the National Park Service, which operates the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. The venue overlooks the USS Arizona memorial.

                  At 7:55 a.m., the exact moment the attack began, a moment of silence will be observed. A U.S. Navy ship will render honors to the Arizona, followed by an aerial flyover in a "missing man" formation.

                  Remains of Vernon Olsen, 91, of Port Charlotte, Florida, will be interred later Wednesday in the USS Arizona, the battleship on which he served and where 1,117 sailors and Marines died in the attack.

                  Flying from aircraft carriers on Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese aviators attacked eight battleships, destroying two, and left a trail of death and destruction across the verdant landscape. They also struck other military installations on Oahu.

                  The attack shook America's confidence and ushered the country into World War II.

                  About 120 Pearl Harbor survivors were registered to attend Wednesday's ceremony.

                  The gradual loss of the World War II generation has accelerated, and this year, perhaps more than any before it, evidence of a tide change is inescapable.

                  The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, founded in 1958, is dissolving December 31. The passing of time, the difficulty in finding chapter officers and the health of its 2,700 members have taken their toll.

                  In recent years, interpretation of the attack has shifted its focus "from engagement to peace," with recognition that both sides fought a "savage war," said Daniel A. Martinez, chief historian at monument.

                  Martinez and other staff members have recorded video interviews with many veterans, preserving their memories. "They tell me stories they haven't told their families," he said.

                  Nation pauses to remember Pearl Harbor - CNN.com

                  *Its now up to the sons and daughters of the survivors to tell their stories. Luckily, many have been recorded to the Library of Congress for future generations to hear before they all pass into time.

                  Great acts of courage that day and the days that followed.
                  Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by tankie View Post
                    So are the Japanese having school kids having oversized fat belching macdonalds and cream cakes for Pearl Harbour day that never happened , same as the holocaust that never happened , Hey Ob'uma the worlds flat n the moon is made of cheese :bang::bang::bang: It should along with the holocaust , NEVER BE FORGOTTEN :pari:
                    No sir, they eat fat ass burgers on Aug. 15th.
                    "Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.

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                    • #11
                      in my opinion, anybody that's ever served in the military and wore the uniform are heroes. That's why you and I can breathe today in a free country. So I just appreciate what they did
                      These are my thoughts as well
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                      If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children."

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by gunnut View Post
                        No sir, they eat fat ass burgers on Aug. 15th.
                        Ahh Enola Gay day huh :whome:

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Tanker View Post
                          The Japanese are observing this day as well by telling everyone that it never happened or we made them attack us because we would give them things. If you ever get the chance to to watch the documentary about Nanking and the other Japanese atrocities during WWII you will be shocked to find a picture taken of a Japanese private bayoneting a civilian and the interview with that very private saying he didn't do it as do many of the Japanese soldiers who did things like this. Sorry, no love lost for the Japanese.
                          And where did you read that

                          "The Japanese are observing this day as well by telling everyone that it never happened or we made them attack us because we would give them things"

                          I'm sure there are some people that might say that, but a normal person with functioning brain cells dismiss those comments as we do some dimwit complaining that the Holocaust didn't happen.

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                          • #14
                            I am sure the President and Mrs Obama personnaly got involved with selecting the menu for today.

                            Come on people...anybody ever been to Sidwell Friends school? I had several friends who graduated from there. I have been on the grounds a bunch of times.

                            It is a Quaker school...I hardly expect them to celebrate anything to do with war. That said they do have a strong history faculty but they do follow a Quaker religious philosophy...just like my school did...a Catholic School where they followed the Catholic doctrine of only supporting just war.

                            And as for the menu? Do you think it may be inline with supporting the strong Chinese studies program?

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                            Mark Twain

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by gunnut View Post
                              No sir, they eat fat ass burgers on Aug. 15th.
                              Really? I thought that was the day the Japanese ate microwave meals for dinner...celebrating that very handy piece of kitchen equipment.

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