“On this National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, we recall the phrase “Remember Pearl Harbor,” which stirred the fighting spirit within the hearts of the more than 16 million Americans who courageously served in World War II. Over 400,000 gave their lives in the global conflict that began, for our Nation, on that fateful Sunday morning.
Today, we memorialize all those lost on December 7, 1941, declare once again that our Nation will never forget these valiant heroes, and resolve as firmly as ever that their memory and spirit will survive for as long as our Nation endures.”
God Bless the USA and all those who bravely gave their lives for us.
Dad and my father in law served in the Army and Navy, Pacific Theater. Both gone, never forgotten. May God bless the USA.
A Day the will live in infamy.
our greatest generation other than the 1776 men who literally started from scratch.
We almost started from scratch in WWII. My Dad joined up in Jan 1940. He was 21 and the common belief then was that if one served one’s year enlistment term before the US went to war, one would go to the back of the line. Well, as Daddy said, his “one” ended up being in his last month when Pearl Harbor was bombed and went to the front of the 1-A line. During his basic, there were no guns. At Fort Bragg, they used broomsticks. The same ‘can-d0″ spirit that allowed us to gear up in almost no time into a great war power is the same one President Trump harnessed to get the COVID vaccine done. We can accomplish amazing things with the right leadership and spirit.
excellent post. nothing but the greatest respect for these warriors.
My father got his draft notice sometime prior to Pearl Harbor, but his report date was in January 42. Like so many others, he got in line to volunteer to go right away. When they found out he already had a report date, they sent him out the door right then and there. They told him to report on the date he already had and they were too busy to try to move it up. So he reported in January and spent the next four years in the Army as a draftee. He didn’t get back from Europe until Feb 46. The biggest four years of his life.
Indy Neidell does a splendid job narrating WW2:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1AejCL4DA7jYkZAELRhHQ
Knowing what we know now, did the DC establishment allow this attack to happen to solidify the American people to fight this war? In my view many “coincidences” point that direction.
not just “allow” but caused it intentionally. no question. thank you co-president Harry Hopkins. much intelligence showed attack about to happen was covered over and scapegoats found. all the American boys tortured and killed death camps Bataan and many many more. live experiments on American boy’s living bodies. FDR just kept the martinis dry. 1st communist potus was fdr/hopkins
if my spit were not so valuable, I would spit on the memory of fdr/hopkins
FDR was also a racist who did nothing to better the lives of Blacks in this country. I get so tired of lefty historians who talk about how FDR’s Raw (New) Deal helped get us out of the Great Depression. It was World War II that did that, and you can bet FDR and his handlers knew the Raw Deal only exacerbated America’s economic problems.
p’odwats:
FDR also swindled every American out of their real money!
There are definitely unanswered questions. Too much CYA and blaming going around to get the record straight. Also, Diane West has written about records of Congressional hearings disappearing during Truman’s time. That was about prewar anti communist hearings. I would not doubt that he destroyed other embarrassing records.
But, I truly think Americans at that time thought an attack on America was unthinkable, so they didn’t think it in their plans.
The carriers were on secret missions to reinforce Wake Island and Midway.
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/c/carrier-locations.html
I am not sure why the Philippines weren’t ready. We had reinforced our army air force there too. They had 9 hrs notice after Pearl Harbor. They did split up the bombers before the attack, saving half, and the half they lost were preparing to attack Japanese airfields in Taiwan. (The same airfields they were attacked from.) But there weren’t enough to make a difference either attacking or defending.
So, we were reinforcing some forces for Japanese attacks, but we weren’t on alert.
And there was a massive failure to provide Pearl with sufficient warning to be on alert. More territorial infighting than malice.
But to be fair, the Japanese fleet maintained radio silence, and the diplomatic codes which we had broken did not lay out any attacks. So we had no direct warning.
And somebody may have have been thinking an attack against American forces guarding American territory far west of Hawaii could be useful, then been completely surprised by the attack that happened.
We likely will never be able to be sure.
By the way. The Japs should have carried out their plans. They did not exercise target discipline and left us the ability to use Pearl for supply and repairs. And they chose to not carry out another attack which had been planned. The Enterprise was returning to Pearl and could have been sunk.
They did this a lot. They won engagements at sea and then failed to carry through. They won the Coral sea fight, but abandoned their invasion of Port Moresby. They sank most of the ships protecting the invasion at Guadalcanal, and declared victory and went home. Thankfully they did not carry out their planned attack on the invasion convoy.
There are always unexplainable things that help one side or the other. It is easy to ascribe these things to actions of betrayal by one side, or by providence for the other side. It usually sits somewhere inbetween.
“..somewhere in between” ?
I think I will always choose “providence” ….by God’s grace.
Things that happen here on earth are not due to chance. It only seems that way if one ignores the reality of God and His Will.
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GB, I think you’re so correct. George Washington humbly attributed Providence to our victory. And his long and varied experiences had proven that to him, from the French and Indian War all the way through the Revolution.
Think about how in just a short time his army avoided certain crushing defeat by the British in Long Island and then in New York City. Both times his retreat was miraculously concealed from the enemy by a mysterious fog that appeared out of nowhere, enabling them to move all of their forces to secure areas.
Think of that picture of him kneeling before God in that brutal winter at Valley Forge, and then leading his men across the Delaware to defeat the Hessians in Trenton.
Acts of Providence are so dominant in our history to help us overcome dire odds to win. I’m not sure if we deserve it or not, but I pray that Providence is willing to intervene one more time to help Trump to prevail.
Maybe. But Americans did come together and the US became the largest and most proficient manufacturer in the world as a result. And we did defeat a very evil Nazi regime that was coming after us. We fought for our freedom. I sense there is another war worth fighting coming, maybe cold, maybe hot, but it is a freedom fight nonetheless.
As a past resident I’ve been to the memorial several times. Who remembers Mr Fisk?
Fiske? A Marine bugler?
Yes, I met him several times and listened intently to his stories!
I believe November 3, 2020 will live in similar infamy as a great attack on our nation. Those men didn’t die then so we can give up now
Came here to say this. All respect to them all (including both my grandfathers, one of whom was in Honolulu that day), but the times require a new sacrifice from a new generation.
11/3/2020 only lives if we have the steely resolve to do what is necessary to push evil back into its cave.
“To do what is necessary to push evil back into its cave.”
No it needs to be pulled out of it’s cave and killed!!
Then it is gone!
Retired Magistrate here: All those brave soldiers died for our freedom. We must never forget the high price of freedom. Unfortunately, since World War II a lot of our nation has gotten soft; both in the head and body.
Whenever I get down hearted I go back go my World War II history books and review everything this country went through in order to defend freedom here and take it back for the rest of the world that was involved in World War II. Some of the countries managed to keep their freedom, other did not.
I believe President Trump will do everything he can to defend our freedom. If he fails, it will be up to us to keep our freedom with whatever it takes to do that. I pray that GOD will show us mercy and not give us what we deserve-Biden, but show us grace and give us President Trump for another four years.
Amen, Marcia, amen.
Amen Marcia, amen
Amen.
Amen.
Marcia- “I pray that GOD will show us mercy and not give us what we deserve-Biden, but show us grace and give us President Trump for another four years.”
My prayer, too. God have mercy on us.
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Amen
Amen.
fantastic post & so true – thank you
AMEN!
That was the day that the sleeping giant awoke.
I feel the giant is coming out of hibernation.
America
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The kraken is released!
I was thinking this morning that nothing has been said about it. We have got to make sure our children and grandchildren know the significance of Dec 7, 1941 for those who lost their lives and loved ones.
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nov 3rd 2020 will be synonymous with Dc 7th 1941..
Both attacks were not anticipated.. the results will be similar.. the comple inhalation of the enemy
MAGA
I will never forget. My Dad was a WWII Vet. He fought in the European Theater. I was raised with war stories and a sense of history. I taught my boys what they weren’t taught in school.
I remember sitting in a meeting a work. It was about the “Team Concept” (which I believe to this day was an indoctrination program for adults) that the company was going to roll out. One of the upper management class (change agent commie) asked what day is it. I answered, “December 7th, Pearl Harbor Day“. He actually told me I “was going to have to get over that“. Needless to say I fired back with both barrels on that commie statement.
The situation we find ourselves in today with adults as well as children having been force fed propaganda has been going on for decades. To undo what has been done is going to be up to us older people attempting to untrain our children and grandchildren.
and in some respects maybe even ourselves.
I have always said, we are dealing with the children and the parents of the grandparents that grew up in the 60’s and early 70’s. Not surprising at all!
My grandfather was w WWl infantry vet, spent two years in France and 20+ years before mustering out. When the Japanese attacked Pearl, he was down at the enlistment office with his old uniform and helmet ( which I have still today hanging in our family room ceiling beam) the next day. They told him he was too old and he argued like hell. Anyhow, they finally offered him a reserve fire brigade assignment at a military installation for the duration. they told him that by filling this position. he would free up a younger man for combat! Ha! Many years later, he told me more than once that ‘my generation was going to ruin this country’. Boy was he ever right, the 60’s and 70’s turned out some real jerks that we are dealing with now in high positions.
Lol…..my Daddy said the exact same thing! He also warned me to never worry too much about Russia but NEVER trust Red China.
BudK
Great story! You are so blessed to have had such a grandfather, and he because you recognized his worth.
Exactly, while I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s my parents were Depression Era and Daddy was 9 years older than Mama. I am grateful that I had benefit of their wisdom. Mama is still going strong at 90.
What a piece of human excrement that guy is/was.
He was so arrogant, I could tell he was far left leaning I always challenged him, I knew he was brought in as a complete disrupter. One time he smarted off to me and told me in the future companies would be completely automated and there would be a man and a dog. The dog would be there to guard the machines and the man would be there to feed the dog. I couldn’t stand him. He is in Colorado now. Go figure, one of the ones that have ruined another beautiful state without a doubt.
I answered, “December 7th, Pearl Harbor Day“.
He actually told me I “was going to have to get over that“
The antecedent or predecessor mind-set to “they cling to their religion and their guns” (Bitter Clingers, later known as Deplorables)
Excellent point! I never put that together.
I’ll remember. My dad was a survivor.
Wow, so many unsung heroes!
Had my flag out today. God bless those that lost their lives at Pearl Harbor and may they be an inspiration to us today.
Oh, and if you want a good history lesson, this is a good one. 30 minutes but worth the watch. Enjoy!
Same here. My big flag, which I bring out for holidays and commorations, such as today. My little flag hangs every day. Next to the big flag, I taped a sign, in large block letters, reading, “Remember 12/7/41,” visible from a half a block away, so that pedestrians and people in cars driving by will know why there’s a big flag draped from my 4th floor balcony, for all the world to see.
China today is equivalent to the Japan of the 1930’s.
Yup. An elitist, imperialist, barbaric country with an inferiority complex, hatred of the West, and thinks it is the center of the Universe.
But to be fair, they have thought that way since Rome was taking over Italy.
Those men and women DIED, and those who survived lived with those horrors the rest of their lives
so that cowardly politicians
could ignore over 70 millions Americans who had their votes stolen
because they are protected by a corrupt media
and by both major political parties.
They don’t give a damn what those men and women died for or that they died at all.
The Democommunists only care about what they can exploit to gain and retain power. They don’t care about past sacrifices in the horrors of war, just about the supposed horrors of a “mean tweet”.
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Let us hope that Yamamoto’s quote can also apply to our MAGA country after the travesty of the stole election–
I have no desire whatsoever to see the darkness that this latest outrage of evil has caused, nor for my children or I to be obligated to live through it… but it must come if we are to preserve our republic.
let it come. and then let it end.
This nation has strayed quite far from the principles upon which it was founded. Perhaps our Father knows that we need to be tested…..
Deuteronomy 8:2 – You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
James 1:2,3 – Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
Amen, GB Bari, amen.
Remembering on this day the POW’s in Vietnam/Laos. They were not MIA, they were never released POWs.
Some are not too old to be alive but I suspect that problem was solved a long time ago.
RIP.
History,
God bless them, the never released POWs
Same for many Korean War soldiers.
A belated thank you (or something I can’t say) to “Songbird” John McCain who did everything he could to obstruct us from getting those unfortunate POWs released and returned home. A pox on him and his house forever!
Whenever I am out for a drive and I see one of those black POW/MIA flags in someone’s yard it makes me cry. My only brother was KIA in Vietnam, but at least we knew what happened and we got his remains returned.
Every year, on this date, I remember a young man I never met…
My mother kept a plastic rose, in a grey glass vase on her bureau. It was there forever.
One day I asked her about it and she told me about a sailor.. He was a beau of sorts, and he gave her the rose to keep until he came home… He was there at Pearl Harbor.
My mother never forgot that young man… I wish I knew his name…
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Awwww….. How bitter-sweet,,,,, precious; in so many ways.
..oh my gosh..
I was fortunate enough to meet a Pearl Harbor survivor. He was leaving a market that I was entering. I saw his hat and thanked him for protecting our nation.
He was with his adult daughter. His wife had preceded him in death.
He and I had a long talk. I am blessed to have been able to meet him and that he shared some of himself with me. We were holding hands and both shedding tears.
I hope to be worthy of so much bravery and sacrifice.
I have a good friend who along with a buddy, went up to the roof of the Admin building armed with their Springfields and tried to shoot down the attackers. He was a just-out-of-boot camp swabbie, but went through most of the island campaign with the Marines as a radioman.
I talk to him every couple of days, but haven’t seen him since the Scamdemic hit. He won’t leave the house, or let anyone in.
79 years later, a major political party is in league with foreign Communists, has no compunction about effecting a coup d’etat twice, shows no morals, no honesty, shows nothing but ruthlessness about forcing a Communist agenda onto a flabby populace, among whom dwell a near majority of videoized, marijuana-bombed ninnies incapable of coherent thought.
Yes, too many modern “Americans,” for whom Patriotism is a dirty word, are a disgrace to the sacrifices of previous generations, all the way back to the sailors of Columbus in 1492.
A pox on all such traitors!
I don’t understand how most of these state legislators from these contested states –you and I know that they knew the truth of the steal and they know the particulars of the steal in their own states—can remain silent if they have children. I just_don’t_get_it.
Even mothers and fathers who are the timid sort can turn into lions when it comes to protecting their kids and grand kids.
Do they think China is gong to spare their kids?
You’d think they’d HATE JOE BIDEN for what he’s done.
Fear + Money = Traitorous Behavior.
They are afraid of charges of racism, afraid of not looking “progressive,” afraid of not rising to the next political level, etc. and sell themselves to anyone so that they can live well and buy their way to success in their next election.
They do NOT care about America. They will sell us Conservative rhetoric to advance their careers, but they are NOT Conservatives. They are selfish sociopaths.
The ones who are openly Leftist are slightly more honest…but only slightly! They too are sociopaths willing to enforce slavery on their opponents.
My govr in MI, scum of the earth.
Here in Ohio we have heard about her! Condolences and good luck on sending her off to a real job worthy of her talents, e.g. bagging groceries or sweeping the gutters.
ONE TERM Georgia governor is right up there with yours!
I think it’s pure careerism.
The Alinsky methods have indeed left their mark.
That is why you have to fight fire with a bigger fire, an absolute conflagration.
Thing is those legislators are full of hubris or just totally self-deceived. They imagine they (and their children) will be spared the painful consequences of allowing, actually promoting, profound injury to the nation from subversion of electoral systems tantamount to treason.
It makes no difference if the legislators or other officials were paid off or their actions result solely from drinking ideological kool-aid. In any case their loyalty is not to the Constitution nor to God as they open swore on their oaths. The lie is the fundamental evil. Lying to us, the voters, and themselves more profoundly, is invisible to them. They tell themselves they’re motives are purely innocent, all part of the crimes committed against the people who entrusted them to serve the public.
We must not let it go on unprotested. My hunch is the people of Georgia and other states will rise up and take back their own. As my father used to say, “son, don’t worry, it will all come out in the wash”. In my old age I can say that more often than not it’s been true.
Amen! I certainly hope for a Conservative revolution, and not a Communist one!
“The lie is the fundamental evil.”
And we have to call out their guilt.
They must be made to FEEL SHAME, something public schools have been primed by leftists to root out of American behavior.
Shame is toxic when one feels shame because of the actions of another.
Shame is good when one feels it because his own immoral or amoral actions.
American public schools and many parents have confused the two; the result is the absence of shame among those who should indeed feel it, shoulder it and make things right by admitting guilt and by making amends.
These bastards feel NO SHAME!
True, but the Leftists are amoral Nietzscheans, Supermen creating their own morality and rjecting Natural Law and Truth as universal and absolute.
Shame for them, ipsis factis, becomes impossible, unless it is connected to failure in imposing their will upon us.
“They tell themselves they’re motives are purely innocent..”
I do not believe for one second that they think of themselves as “innocent.” IMHO they have made a calculated bet – they have been seduced by the Dark Force who has offered immediate financial gain and is providing the illusion of lasting power.
Jesus was faced with a similar offer from the same Dark Force. He basically told Satan to get stuffed.
GB Bari,
Great comment. I know some of these people.
Calculated bet. Then there are those who, even though or because of modern “education” hate our nation and our freedoms.
They don’t have a clue what they are pursuing.
Test
I was there last year. It was my first trip to Hawaii,
My plans were to go again this year. Then I was going to see the other islands
Guess not
But today I proudly wore my Pearl Harbor hat and shirt while doing my errors.
it was an awesome day. Dang should have just filled up my clear backpack with Kleenex. Was down to using TP I stole from some of the bathrooms.
Not many of survivors left, but they are/were an awesome group
Went to the parade that night and sat the curb at the end because I thought there was going to be a ceremony of some sort. Guy walked up to to and joking asked where my headphones were(They were from the tour). I asked him what he was doing there and he points to the 97 year old sailor that I had met at Pearl Harbor “I’m trying to keep up with him” The 97 year old Pearl Harbor vet was literally dancing the parade, a five mile plus parade.
Yes it is a day we should never forget or let our children forget.
ok did my comment get stuck in the muck bucket
They expect to be in the permanent ruling , exempt from unpleasant consequences.
I love you, Dad. Rest in peace.
Corporal, U.S.Army.
One of ‘the Greatest’
Let’s hope in the coming months we will have the steel in us and the resolve and bitter determination to correct this injustice. And if we have to fight, to make it right so be it
I’m fortunate to have a home overlooking Pearl Harbor, so the reminder is a daily one. At 0755 this morning the jets roared over our house as they perform the missing man formation. It always gives me goosebumps though I’ve been watching it for the last 34 years.
My late father-in-law was a civilian in the carpenter shop on Hickam, working that day. My mother-in-law, my infant wife and her brother resided in Hickam housing. My father-in-law wasn’t injured but was isolated until the next day. No phone calls. No runners to reassure loved ones. Just smoke and fire, emergency vehicles and military vehicles racing everywhere. He kept his head down and waited until he could pass without getting shot at. I wish I had gotten him to talk more about it, but he just would just shake his head, talking about the huge mess everywhere, and not knowing anything.
My Dad was a Pearl Harbor survivor.
President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
It applies regarding Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, and at this present time.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Some tidbits worthy of meditating upon, not really Pearl Harbor, but still:
About ten years ago, I was waking the long hallway at Hines VA Medical Center.
There was a young man in a wheelchair, (young, compared to the elderly couple pushing the wheelchair). By looks, he was of the Vietnam Era age group or maybe Desert Storm (?). He was very thin. He had a vacant look on his face, seemingly unaware of his surroundings. He had long hair, like of the 60’s. The elderly couple, whom I assumed to be the wheelchair occupant’s parents, looked emotionally tired.
I assumed the wheelchair occupant was their son and that they were there for the younger one’s medical care.
I often wondered if the elderly man had been in WW2 or Korea. He seemed of the age for the Korean War, could maybe, WW2. I often wonder how they managed and planned to care for the younger man, once they were gone. And I wondered about the the wheelchair occupant…did he, long ago, have plans for a family? An education? A lucrative career?
Or the couple I cared for once, a married couple hospitalized in the same room, in their 90’s…with black numerical tattoo’s on their forearms. What were their plans?
The NATO peacekeeper (not a UN blue helmet)…he was luckier, but sick, also had plans, nonetheless…
Or the GI I knew who once told me the story, (which I already knew, having lived there), about Fort Sherman’s howler monkeys and the c-rations…(the gi’s would throw them over the fence and the monkeys would open the can, taste them, and throw them back to the gi’s.
My POW bracelet officer, lost on his first air mission…a ‘boy’ (young man) from Des Moines. I am from the mid-west, so he has deeper meaning to me.
The enduring horrors of war! No, there was not much about Pearl Harbor today. How sad. So much of American treasure, lost. Ultimately, treasures of Japan, as well. All because of the arrogance of men who want “control”.
We must hold the line and stand fast…while pertinent to the European theater of WW2, this old speech is worthy of revisiting, with reference to the “New World” coming to the rescue, as that is what American’s do….Defend the downtrodden.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/winston-churchills-historic-fight-them-beaches-speech-wasnt-heard-public-until-after-wwii-180967278/
https://www.skylighters.org/quotations/quots6.html
I remember the POW bracelets. We were dirt poor, living in a trailer, my mom and 4 kids. Stepfather had run off with a college girl half his age. As a family we decided to get a bracelet, just a token of what we could do to support our boys.
I’ll never forget the name. Lewis Shattuck. I saw him get off the plane in America after he was released by N.V. He was one of the very last ones to come home. I still seethe with anger when I think about how the Demoncrats pulled the funding for South Vietnam and left them to die. That changed me, sobered me to the realities of the world we live in. The Governor of our state was one of the few who took in South Vietnamese refugees. They were great people, and very thankful to be here.
Sometimes this old world just makes me sad….but then I think of our President and I know…he is a gift from God. Best President in my lifetime.
In 1941, Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania bore the brunt of a sneak attack meant to conquer America.
And again in 2020.
We stand on the shoulders of these giants, and generations who gave all for our freedoms.
They fought and died for us so criminals couldn’t install puppets to rule over us.
And we’re going to honor their legacy given to us.
Promise.
To those remembering, I join you with a prayer.
I was not alive, and neither were my parents.
I cannot even begin to imagine what it was like.
Heavenly Father,
Lay your hand upon the shoulders of those here and around the world who on this day remember their family members and loved ones lost to this tragedy. Grant them the serenity to recall the joy and love those who have left them brought to their lives. Help them to allow your eternal love to wash over them. And for a moment, allow them to be with their loved ones again.
In your name I ask this,
Amen
Not traditional, but from the heart…
Thank you for that, brought a few tears.
So many sacrificed their very lives for all that we inherit, the way of life we’ve enjoyed for these many decades. Our gratitude can never equal their gifts but it is a step toward dedication to preserving our great nation.
Now it’s our turn to stand up for our country, to support the forces arrayed against the nations enemies who aim to steal our birthright of free and fair elections.
I am grateful and in awe of that generation of Americans.
I can’t help but reflect on the Four Freedoms as stated in the state of the union of that same year.
-the freedom of speech and expression
-the freedom of worship
-the freedom from want
-the freedom from fear
All of those freedoms listed above have been under attack this year under the guise of or by the China Virus.
Freedom of speech and expression – met with cancel culture and settled science….
Freedom of Worship – Churches have and are shutdown, denying needed fellowship and hope.
Freedom from want – people are loosing their businesses and shortages in the stores. (however we definitely are much better off as of today than the Great depression era)
Freedom from fear – this has been a year of nothing but hyped fear
Relatively few of us have ever lived thru a bloody battlefield or worked in a field hospital to help our soldiers hang on to life. This day is a sober reminder of those who have fought and died to maintain the liberty that we so enjoy here in the USA. I for one think that precious ‘liberty’ is still worth fighting for. Never surrender, never give up, do not submit to tyranny.
Today is my birthday, though I was not born in 1941 I feel a kind of association with the events of the day of infamy.
My birthdays tend to be somber events that slip past me each year with little fanfare.
Not so much this year however.
I have this reoccurring memory of a comment the Japanese general made about attacking America and his observation that there was a gun hidden behind every blade of grass.
He was right then, and still today, that fact could not be more accurate.
Like Pearl Harbor, Dec 7th 1941, Nov 3rd 2020 was a day of infamy. Except our attackers are among us. We let our guard down and they quietly slipped into our government and every facet of our bureaucracy. I do not know for sure but maybe McCarthy was right.
The “they” I mention was not a horde of evil people, rather it started as a few we tolerated in the name of freedom of speech and expression, with an ideology intent on our overthrow. We apparently did believe they were sincere, instead we gave them high degrees, and turned them loose on our children in Universities all across this land.
We let them multiply, fresh from Universities they dug deep into our schools, our legal system, our churches, our government and military.
We let them define corporations as individuals. And they had cash to burn so burn it they did. They purchased every politicians vote, they write their own laws and their political servants are so corrupted they sacrificed our nation on the alter of greed in obedience to their task masters. Politics is a local affair and so is political corruption.
We saw it happen right in front of our eyes when they murdered the Kennedy bros. Not one of us stood up so they became emboldened. And we get to where we are today.
A BLATANT coup has just occurred. Our democracy, Uncle Sam has taken a head shot and is bleeding all over our Whitehouse.
Now who do we turn to to make this right?
We do not trust our state governments, they bought the machines for us to use to elect our next President. They subverted state election laws to facilitate the coup. And VERY few if any politicians are making any noise, wonder why?
We can not trust our law enforcement, FBI or DOJ, or even many Sheriff depts and local cops, ALL have forgotten the difference between law enforcement and politics. I will mention the CIA here as well because they have turned their sights on American citizens at home as well.
Still we caught them, but now we are not willing to trust our judiciary as they have demonstrated time and again, during this rambling coup, that there is indeed a tiered justice system.
We have yet to see if the military, even with the legacy of brave men and women who died for this nation, will abandon their effort and cheapen their ultimate sacrifice to support this coup. Prepare to be disappointed.
So we have no choice but to look to our legal system to do triage on a mortally wounded uncle Sam. We already know the judiciary is badly compromised, and perhaps tomorrow we will discover the Supreme court is also sullied. We can hope and pray there are still patriots in the highest court in our land. But do not hold your breadth.
So whats left? One man, one President, and his army, with guns behind every blade of grass.
Just say the words Mr President.
I’ve been to the memorial at Pearl Harbor a number of times. It’s never ceased to be a profoundly moving experience.
What’s interesting is that at every visit there seemed to be near as many Japanese visitors as Americans. And judging by their facial expressions and demeanor no less moved by the experience. A few times I was able to have a conversation with English-speaking Japanese. They weren’t hesitant to describe their feelings of sadness over loss of life on both sides and futility of warfare. I couldn’t dispute WW2 in the Pacific began and ended in great tragedy.
Comparisons are inevitable with the enormous struggle now happening in the wake of the election, torpedoed as it were by a coordinated attack of fraud perpetrated by enemies of the nation. Will Nov 3, 2020 later be remembered as another day of infamy? Probably it depends on who wins this battle. If it be the side that strives to preserve the Constitution and rule of law then it will be so. Otherwise it will be celebrated as a victory against deplorables, by that time a species believed extinct and hardly recognized.
But the patriot spirit isn’t really diminished, from time-to-time rising up and overwhelming those who would crush it. IMO this is such a time, its energy flows and strengthens with each revelation of assault on the principles of free and fair elections. The President leads the charge but his people are close behind and determined to see it through.
Our republic has been attacked this time from within. A sneak attack all the same
Asking for some.help.
I’m trying to look at The Last Refuge twitter and all.the twitter accounts ,that I check nightly are not showing up..
All I can get is old threads from.months ago.
Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong.??
It has been doing that all day.
I’m on a tablet
Stop The Steal !
Stop The Medical Fraud !
Stop The Great Reset !
In 2020 this sounds chilling to me…
It sounds like a curse.
In Flanders Fields
“Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.”
This is sickening:
https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/local-politics/congress-will-likely-have-final-say-in-iowas-2nd-congressional-race-rita-hart-mariannette-miller-meeks-us-house-of-representatives-politics/524-46302b3d-da3f-479b-a128-f8f9802ea443
Sorry. Wrong thread.
Yet today a lack of support for BLM is tantamount to Pearl Harbor for Obama’s armchair Generals and your average Chelsea Manning enlistee..
Maybe my age..dob February 1935…watching all going’s on 2020 it seems to me China has accomplished what Japan had in mind in 1941…all the Dem governors and mayors then in unison start lockdowns..people around Trump encouraged him to start it.. which gave others cover…California gov shuts people in their homes.. Japanese American to internment camps (1942)…virus now excuse for mail in ballots… rigged election.. all seems coordinated.. as I said maybe I’m just old..???
The Japanese attacked China and killed/maimed 200,000 Chinese in the “rape of Nanking”. China loved us until the Communists took over a few years after the Japs surrendered to us.
Everybody wants to rule the world. Somethings never change.
While being an All-American football player, my father interrupted his college years (in the mid 40s) to serve 2 years in the navy (teaching pilots how to takeoff and land on carriers) and then came back to finish college for 2 more years and then played in the college all-star game and then with the Packers. He never hesitated. Current college football players would never even think of doing this… and, I think that’s why we are where we are.
Jeem,
God bless your dad. You have a great role model and we are fortunate to have patriots like your dad.
I agree with your assessment. I have a relative who has a PHD in physics. He is not 1/2 the man your father is!
a bombshell video from china just showed on tucker carlson(was flicking thru the channells) its over for the elites with commie ties in D.C. now.
My dad joined up at the age of 19. With in 6 months found himself captured and in the March of Bataan. 2 1/2 years in prison camp. His wounds were mental. In many ways he was a great dad but his wounds hurt me and my brother that would last us the rest of our lives.
Anyone that advocates for us to rain hell down on our fellow man should exercise some caution. The pain you may want to inflect may never leave your mind.
Hopefully if it comes to a true battle,one against another…it is swift and short.
I hope to God it never comes to that.
I pray for justice and peace. But I am ready if called to arms.
My father served in the navy 1943-46, in the pacific. He died in 2013, 88. He was in a lot of battles. Whenever he talked about the war the first thing he would mention is being in Okinawa at the end. He would say, “I was one among many thousands gathered in Okinawa, preparing to invade Japan when the bomb was dropped”
BIDEN SHOULD CONCEDE!
my freedom is a direct RESULT of millions of American patriots who answered the call, never backed down, and sacrificed their lives in the most righteous selfless act of honor and courage any human being can ever perform.
today I grateful and I pray and honor these men and women in the only way I know that matters.
I visit the VA homes and hospitals and sit and listen and have meaningful friendships with these awesome people.
there is always a Bible on the table opened up and solemn reading.
I care because it’s my duty.
my heart is full.
and I’ll do it again next week..and through the holidays.
bring kids folks.
it really matters
God Bless America
Been having tech problems day, so I’ll keep it short this year.
I encourage everyone to remember “Pearl Harbor” through the stories of the people who experienced it. Doris Miller is a personal favorite of mine, but there are many others. One of the most interesting is Mituso Fuchida, who led the first wave of Japanese planes but lived to found an evangelical society in Seattle after the war. And of course there are those whom history does not name, but whom we know as Dad or Grandpa. All parts, no matter how small they might appear were, are, important.
Great and terrible events are about people and the choices that they make. It is easy to get caught in tendrils of politics, of conspiracies, of the push and pull of systems and structures and forces, but in the end it is people making choices, it is what people choose to do or not do, which is important to historical outcomes. That, perhaps, is more important to remember this December than it has been in a very long time.
We must never the brave men and women who fought, sacrificed and died to defend our freedoms and make the world a better place.
We will never surrender to DemoNazi traitors. We will never surrender to tyrants and fascists trying to destroy our country. If you don’t like it here – leave! You are not welcome here anymore. You are lucky I am not President, I wouldn’t be as accommodating of your treason.
God bless America.
Amen.
Well said.
I pulled out my 1982 Army field jacket, and my 101st OD green cap for the occasion. 12/7 was my dad’s 9/11. His Uncle Geo was in the Army training troops in Camp Roberts, CA. Geo gave my dad a map of the globe. The Sunday paper would put out the latest positions of the fronts in Europe. My dad would make the changes on his map too. I wish he were here to tell me more about the hardships at home during the war.
Hat tip and a crisp salute to all the vets serving and lost. WE WILL NEVER FOFGET! 12/7 or 9/11