|
|
Posts: 1274
Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Let's not forget what happened on this day in 1941. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 1419
Location: Brighton CO. | Good to see someone mentioned this with all the WWII Vets passing it has not even made the news as it did in the past. Mom and I talked about it yesterday (she's 90) My late dad always remembered it, my dad and my grandparents were coming back from Rabbit hunting when they heard about it. Everyone from that time period knows what and where they were then they got the news. (just like us on 9/11) |
|
| |
|
Location: Athens, Ohio | My mom and dad met in Japan during The Occupation. I'd not be here - at least like I am - without Pearl Harbor. m |
|
| |
|
Posts: 398
Location: SW Ohio | Both my father and his father served as Seabees in the Pacific after Pearl Harbor. Both, somehow, made it out alive. Not enough can be said about the "Greatest Generation". |
|
| |
|
Location: Athens, Ohio | Here's a video clip of my mom talking abt a bus ride she had:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vkFY3kB3mA
m
|
|
| |
|
Posts: 1419
Location: Brighton CO. | That was cool thanks for sharing. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 38
| My uncle was in Pearl Harbor that day. He was trained as a welder, and was welding portholes and doors shut to create airlocks so ships would not sink as quickly (as he described his jobs). His cousins went to Hawaii first, then my uncle followed for the job. He remained in Hawaii throughout WW2 but was never in the service, so he received no GI benefits.
Greg Ide
His hair went instantly grey, and he did not talk about WW2 at all until sometime in the 1960s. I suspect PTSD. |
|
| |
|
| When Kennedy was assassinated, it was right before the start of WI gun deer season. We went to our rustic hunting camp and my dad and uncles were clearly worried. They and a lot of others thought it might be the work of the Soviet Union.
My dad was a combat medic in the Pacific, one of the uncles at camp was in the Navy and drove landing craft for the Marines in the Pacific. The second uncle had hit the beach at Normandy as a 130# 18 year old.
While they seldom talked about war, that night they talked about Pearl Harbor and its impact. My dad was one of many convinced that Roosevelt had been warned but chose not to act, knowing it would compel congress to declare war. People forget that right up to then, the majority in congress didn't even really support selling weapons to Britain. |
|
| |
|
Posts: 38
| My uncle put a beer bottle through a TV screen when the person on TV called it a SURPRISE attack on Pearl Harbor. He felt Roosevelt knew, but let it happen so the country would back entering WW2.
Greg Ide |
|
| |
