Dec 7th , 1941

Phantasmal said:
I honor him for his service. Thanks for sharing.
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When I was young, we would watch the documentary Victory At Sea on TV (among other WWII documentaries). The above were some of the some of the places he'd briefly mention he was at.
I honor him for his service and his lifetime achievements. I miss him...
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RB 60 said:
When I was young, we would watch the documentary Victory At Sea on TV (among other WWII documentaries). The above were some of the some of the places he'd briefly mention he was at.
I honor him for his service and his lifetime achievements. I miss him...
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Didn’t you love those time with your dad. My dad was stationed in France during WWII, they got to liberate several cities and I use to love to hear his stories. He never talked of the horrors, only the joys. My father sounds a lot like yours, a good, hard working, honest, loving man. I miss my dad, too.
 
RB 60 said:
My father quit school when he was 17 to enlist in the Navy in 1943. He was on one of the ships providing Naval bombardment at the Marshall Islands Naval Battle and the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
He went ashore in the Philippines and was there when the prisoners were rescued from the Bataan Death March camp, but never went into detail of how badly injured they were when they
were brought back. He returned to the states after the war and was honorably discharged in 1949. He received a WWII Heroes Recognition Medal from the PA.State Representative.
.He was a hard working, wise and honorable man his whole life. My father is my hero, always was and always will be. He taught me well.
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He is still a hero


He defended the constitution


He would have never allowed it to be terminated by anyone
 
Phantasmal said:
Didn’t you love those time with your dad. My dad was stationed in France during WWII, they got to liberate several cities and I use to love to hear his stories. He never talked of the horrors, only the joys. My father sounds a lot like yours, a good, hard working, honest, loving man. I miss my dad, too.
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He was my hunting partner into his late '70s. I spent a lot of time with him. Now that he's gone, I wish I would have spent more.
 
guno said:
Noticed how farther away it gets and our WWII vet passing, there is less and less mention. Growing up in the 50's I remember that day was reserved in school to learn and remember. In 1969, in the Navy I got to see Pearl , a very sobering occasion seeing the leaking oil still coming from the ships
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It's not so much that the memory of "Pearl Harbour" has (indeed) faded from the modern American consciousness. "Pearl" was merely the event that catapulted America into the Second World War in Europe and the Pacific. (And, BTW, the Japs got their payback for that "dastardly" little stunt big time - in the form of two atom bombs that America dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945). Rather is that schools today don't teach the story of the countless GIs who fought and won great battles like those: at Iwo Jima, Midway, at Anzio, at Buna in New Guinea, in the Ardennes Forrest (the "Battle of the Bulge") Normandy, and so on, where so many men bravely sacrificed their own lives in the name of freedom that make me feel sad. Their heroism is forgotton.


One of the reasons is that the American men who went to fight the Axis in the 1940s are now despised and dismissed as "White, Western Males", (who in the current era are all labelled by the dominant culture as ass-holes) and since the1960s the US states has increasingly produced males who are limp-wristed, woke, Soy-Boy , pansy -socialist wimps who have no sense of honour or understanding of the difference between right and wrong. Today's American males would never have the guts to take on a Nazi Panzer Division or a fanatical, Japanese infantry regiment that was charging towards them. They are nihilistic and totally skeptical. Basically, they "couldn't give a fuck" about anything. Their own nation and native culture is being destroyed right now by mass Third World immigration at the Southern Border, but do they give a shit? No. Would they ever actually get off their asses and act to try and stop it? No Does the ideal of Liberty/Freedom genuinely mean anything to them? No.




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