December 7th 1941

[milwaukeeshaker]

This is about remembering something not discussed in most schools. 12/7/41 2008 killed, 710 wounded.

[Monky]

??? You're a couple months off.


Sent by a free-range electronic weasel, with no sense of personal space.

[milwaukeeshaker]

Just thought it was important to get a jump on it, most will not remember this date as the time when a real war was declared, and Americans lost their lives due to an unprovoked, surprise attack.

[Ronin13]

Just thought it was important to get a jump on it, most will not remember this date as the time when a real war was declared, and Americans lost their lives due to an unprovoked, surprise attack.

Not to nitpick, as I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, but by "real war" I hope you aren't trying to insinuate that the war declared after 9/11/01 wasn't a "real" war, even though Americans lost their lives due to an unprovoked, surprise attack.

I learned about Pearl Harbor in History class throughout school. Even in my American History class my senior year of HS, the teacher had us listen to the entirety of FDR's speech and discuss the significance.

[TheSparkens]

I hate to think that we don't talk about things like this in schools because its not politically correct. My father was saved by a big bomb that saved possible hundreds of thousands of lives when the war ended and that is not talked about much ether. He was USMC at that time and had gotten orders just as the war ended that he was going to fight the Japanese, the irony in all of this is I married a Japanese American woman and when our fathers meet they had a lot to talk about because my wifes father was also saved by that same bomb because he had volunteered to fight that same fight but his farm land had been taken and they were living in an internment camp in southern Colorado but both men had love of country and recognize how important each person was. If we don't talk or teach this we are bond to forget and repeat this type of thing. It is to bad that are kids never heard their stories because they were the best generation ever and asked for nothing back.

[drew890]

"...not discussed in most schools". Provide evidence to support this claim that the attack on Pearl Harbor is no longer taught.

[beast556]

Im 37 and the only time pearl Harbor was brought up when i was in school was around tenth grade. All they said is the japs bombed us and that was why we got involved in ww2.

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[Great-Kazoo]

HOLLY WOOD

[buffalobo]

HOLLY WOOD

Two of my favorites, pretty loose on the history though.