Lest We Forget

[BPTactical]

7 December 1941

A Day That Will Live in Infamy









Changed the world

[hollohas]

I asked my 6th grade daughter last night what she's learned about Pearl Harbor. She said they've haven't talked about it in school.

We spoke about it for a bit and then she spent the next 2 hours researching it by herself, taking notes and telling me what she was learning.

She's going to go to school and ask her history teacher if they can spend the period learning about it today. Hopefully that teacher knows his history...

[ray1970]

Been quite a few years now since I visited Pearl Harbor but I did visit the memorial in Scottsdale for the USS Arizona a couple of weeks ago.

[beast556]

Sad day for our country, what is even worse is 90% of the population is clueless what today is.

[newracer]

I was fortunate to be able to take my family to the memorial, I'll never forget it.

[BushMasterBoy]

12.6 microseconds is a radar mile. It was on the radar. They were warned.

[Gman]

Seems like 90% of the population can't remember 9/11.

[Gman]

12.6 microseconds is a radar mile. It was on the radar. They were warned.

Because the attack happened without a declaration of war and without explicit warning, the attack on Pearl Harbor was later judged in the Tokyo Trials to be a war crime.[21][22]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

[ray1970]

While the memorial that I visited in Scottsdale for the USS Arizona didn?t quite have the same somber vibe as the memorial at Pearl Harbor, they had one feature that helped visualize the loss of life just on the Arizona that day.

They had these lighted poles that represented each person on the ship that day. An overwhelming number of the poles were roughly six or so feet in length with a very few really short poles scattered randomly amongst them. The tall poles represent each person that lost their life that day and the small number of short poles were for those who survived.

Hearing the numbers is one thing but seeing those lives represented the way they did it really brought those numbers into perspective.

Putting into perspective that the lives lost aboard the Arizona only totaled about half of the casualties that day the loss of life really was tragic.

[.455_Hunter]

My Dad, growing-up west of Wichita, remembers there being a huge commotion at the Sunday afternoon church social. Even only 5 at the time, he knew something was up.