Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941…
Then…
Now…
The rumor mill has it this will be the last year of ‘official’ ceremonies with the few remaining survivors.
Now it’s up to us and our children/grandchildren to remember…
Nobody Asked Me…
Veritas nos liberabit
I read that 2006 was the last official reunion (at Pearl Harbor) for the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. Some survivors still might attend ceremonies on their own accord, however. I know the PHSA dissolved themselves as a chartered association back in 2011 but their web site is still on the ‘net.
We remember.
I visited with my friend Nate Weiser last night.
He just turned 98 a few days ago.
He couldn’t come down to the dining room, much less visit Pearl again.
We usually have dinner every couple months with our wives.
I’ve spoken of him here .
It’s a date that will always live in infamy.
What LL said.
Those who fail to learn from history, and all that…
gfa
I went to my Mom’s apartment and prepared breakfast for her this morning. She asked me what the date was, and when I told her, I asked her if she remembered what happened on that day in 1941. “I sure do,” she replied promptly. “Pearl Harbor.” She even remembered the name of the movie she and my Dad were leaving when they got the word.
Sadly, I’d just had to spend ten minutes finding the TV remote control she had misplaced.
Let’s not forget thee civilans who were there. I worked with a man who was 4 years old at the time. He remembers a plane flying low over his house and the someone in the plane waving at him. He also remembers he and his mother not knowing for two days if his father survived.
As a nation, we have forgotten not only the day, but the meaning- devastating surprise attacks are real. Yet here we kneel, heads in the sand.
I was there most recently in March; it never fails to move me to tears.
All- Thank you for the comments/remembering.
Posted from my iPhone.
Always. And we have the nephew remembering, for all the proper reasons. Niece is too young, still, but learning.
Never forgotten here, even if the rest of the country does.
Spent all day on the Battleship Iowa today, mostly in the radio room working HUGE pile-ups calling us.
We talked to the Missouri, the Lexington, the Hornet, and heard the Wisconsin, but couldn’t get through to them.
We had an elderly man at the morning ceremony who is a Pearl Harbor Survivor, and later in the day I was honored to meet and talk to a 93 year old woman who was a nurse on a hospital ship stationed at Pearl during the raid.
Quite a somber day.
Craig- Thanks!
Heath- Heard that!!!
Drjim- Thanks for the time and effort there!
I have a cousin entombed in the Arizona. My family never forgets!
It’s a very sobering memorial, in an incredibly beautiful place. Could only be better if they flooded Diamond Head with water and made it a lake, but then all the others buried up in the crater would be inconvenienced.
Lest We Forget
After reading the above, I went & found an old photo.
It’s of my father, and his two brothers taken in Pearl Harbor in 1944. My dad was just back from the south Pacific aboard the SS Hake, uncle Jim back from the south Pacific on a DD, uncle John, was US Army stationed in Hawaii. How they all met or even knew that they were all there at the same time is unknown. They all survived the war. Two uncles on my mothers side, went ashore at Normandy, All have gone on from this life. All part of the greatest generation.