Blackwater 53393 Posted December 7, 2024 Share Posted December 7, 2024 (edited) I ain’t forgetting!! Thanks to those who bowed their heads for a moment and then stood up and gave what they had to make to world a better place and preserve our nation!! The greatest contribution from the greatest generation!!! Edited December 7, 2024 by Blackwater 53393 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chas B. Wolfson, SASS #11104 Posted December 7, 2024 Share Posted December 7, 2024 ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Eyesa Horg Posted December 7, 2024 Share Posted December 7, 2024 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 7, 2024 Share Posted December 7, 2024 I never forget. It happened just 98 days before I was born. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted December 7, 2024 Share Posted December 7, 2024 4 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: I never forget. It happened just 98 days before I was born. If it had happened about two weeks earlier, I might be four years younger! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cactus Jack Calder Posted December 7, 2024 Share Posted December 7, 2024 I never forget either. It happened 3 years before I was born. In elementary school the teacher always announced my birthday as a “day that shall live in infamy “. My friends had a good time busting me about that. CJ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted December 7, 2024 Share Posted December 7, 2024 51 minutes ago, Cactus Jack Calder said: I never forget either. It happened 3 years before I was born. In elementary school the teacher always announced my birthday as a “day that shall live in infamy “. My friends had a good time busting me about that. CJ I’m sure your mother never forgot it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted December 7, 2024 Share Posted December 7, 2024 My dad's birthday was December 7. He was at the recruiting station in his small town on the morning of December 8. They would not let him join because he had just turned 16. The next year on December 7 he joined the Navy. We lived in Hawaii in pre-statehood days and several sunken ships were still sticking out of the water. The Arizona superstructure was still attached. They removed it when they built the memorial. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 7, 2024 Share Posted December 7, 2024 Warbird Pinup Girls dSreonpost13a 1h9 71cur0ge26e05542e59t2i3cab2hgfcm7c7,D624c6 · Did you know that the first US pilot to encounter the Japanese at Pearl Harbor was a woman? Cornelia Clark Fort was a flight instructor on Oahu who was teaching takeoffs and landings to a student in an Interstate Cadet on December 7, 1941, when Fort saw a military airplane on a collision course and swiftly grabbed the controls from her student to pull up over the oncoming aircraft. It was then she saw the rising sun insignia on the wings. She quickly landed at John Rodgers airport near the mouth of Pearl Harbor. A pursuing Zero strafed her plane and the runway as she and her student ran for cover. The experience changed her forever, later becoming the second member of what was to be the Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASP. Today marks the #80thAnniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a sobering reminder of the devastation of war that led to the formal entry of the United States into #WorldWarII. Fort remarked of her service, "I, for one, am profoundly grateful that my one talent, my only knowledge, flying, happens to be of use to my country when it is needed. That’s all the luck I ever hope to have." #CAF1957 #RiseAbove #WASP #WWII #Aviation #History #Heritage #SheCan #SistersOfTheSky #StrongWomen #Strength #OnThisDay 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted December 7, 2024 Share Posted December 7, 2024 Dad was sunk there. Fortunately for me, he survived, as I was issued 9 years later. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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