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RogerRabbit · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:31 am Post subject: December 7

December 7

63 years ago this day we were attacked by the Japanese at Peaarl
72 years ago this day RogerRaabbit was born

Quite a day
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wwIIvetsdaughter · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 3:49 am Post subject:

Remember Pearl Harbor, Remember 9/11! Never Again!

USAFE5 · PO2 Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 362 Location: Reno Nevada

dldc · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:20 am Post subject:

Happy Birthday Roger Rabbit.

Do you have any remembrance of this day 63 years ago?
My Father told the story of being up on the roof shingling our
house at the time. You were just a youngster and probably
remember gifts and party?

blue9t3 · Admiral Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 1246 Location: oregon

[quote="RogerRabbit"]December 7

63 years ago this day we were attacked by the Japanese at Peaarl
72 years ago this day RogerRaabbit was born

Quite a day[/quote]

Happy B-day Roger!
on this day 31 years ago, Blue 9t3 went back to being a civilian.
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RogerRabbit · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:19 am Post subject:

arkadyfolkner · PO3 Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 271

happy birthday

and a salute to those who lost their lives on the day which will forevermore live in infamy.

gmez2001 · PO3 Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 274

I wonder which MSM channel will be first this evening to blame US imperialism for the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombing .
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Schadow · Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject: Re: December 7

shawa · CNO Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 2004

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROGER!!!

I too am a former Canadian, transplanted to Michigan 37 years ago.
I live about 30 miles NW of "Liberaltown" Ann Arbor.

I am so proud to live in the USA, the greatest nation on earth!

Mother · Former Member Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 210

63 years ago this day we were attacked by the Japanese at Peaarl
72 years ago this day RogerRaabbit was born
on this day 31 years ago, Blue 9t3 went back to being a civilian.

on this day today, my baby boy Gil spends his first full day
at Parris Island.

(Got a recorded call last night stating they arrived safely.)

Going to go get memories from four sisters who remember '41.

blue9t3 · Admiral Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 1246 Location: oregon

Different times indeed, I wish I had had a crystal ball so I could see what would happen to that 400 lb. pile of hamburger goo mike moore back in those days? most likely it would of been the worlds largest blanket party! Shocked

Or should I say tent party? Wink

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Mother · Former Member Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 210

My 83 year old Aunt Jean... She's a hoot.

"Herb and I were married on Nov. 20. We were living in the attic bedroom
at his parents' house, and had taken the streetcar into downtown Cleveland to go to a movie, and I never have remembered which one.

When we came out, the street was full of people reading a moving sign on a building and crying and yelling. We stayed there for awhile, until it became just too much, so we caught a car and went home. His parents weren't watching yet ( Did we have TV yet ? ) nor did they have the radio on, so we were the ones who told them. That's the way I remember Dec. 7

Herb left for Camp Atterbury, Ind. on a date I don't recall, in Sept. I
had become pregnant by then but we didn't know it. I saw Herb just one
more time in the next 4 years."

(I remember hearing that Uncle Herb received a Red Cross telegram, telling him of the birth of the baby. He received another shortly thereafter, when the baby died. They eventually had three other children. He was stricken with polio, and never held a baby until his old age, when he held my third child, a daughter...but he held his own in his arms on the day that he died.)(He was on an island, Balik?, where his job was to pick up body parts from the daisy cutters. We have a candlestick that they made from bullet cartidges to pass the time.)

Al_Hawaii · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:18 am Post subject:

Today my wife and I went to Pearl Harbor for the Dec 7th ceremony. We have done it every year for 3 years since we moved here and will do it as long as we can.

All I can say is God Bless the men and women who went through that day, and that war. And God Bless the men and women who have served our great country in war and peace (what little there has been) since then. This is the greatest country on this earth and I am so greatful my wife and I have been able to serve it.

Leslie,
US Army 1980-2002
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PhantomSgt · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:18 am Post subject:

I was fortunate enough to get one of the flags that were flown over the USS Arizona on the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. It has become my most treasured mementos of my time in the military and I am inspired each time I look at it folded neatly in its’ Koa wood case. It came with a presentation certificate with a place to inscribe a name, but it didn’t seem right to put mine or anyone else’s, so I left it blank and somehow that seems fitting.

I thank God every time I look at it that I had men much like these watching my back over the years willing to sacrifice all for the Nation we love. The troops today with their young faces and eyes that make them look so much older, are cut from the same cloth as these brave Sailors we honor each year on December 7th and thousands of their brothers of World War II, Korea and Vietnam who sacrificed all to protect our way of life.

Thank God for our troops and thank God I am an American.
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