Thank you Sundance.

Thank,you for this Remembrance
My Mother was 14 and was on Waikiki Beach that day. She is in Heaven but being born in Hawaii this always is a heartbreaker 💔

My Great Uncle was there that day and he’s there again today at the age of 102. They don’t make them like that anymore. God bless you Uncle Kenneth.

Isn’t that last pic of the explosion from J6?

A day of remembering the devastation of that day and the four years that followed!.

God Bless all of those men and women that died that day!

My Grandfather served in WWII and my Grandmother was one of the first women to join the new Waves, the naval force of women.

My late husband, FIL, and BIL visited the memorial in Pearl Harbor over 20 years ago. While they were there, there was a group of Asian visitors, perhaps Japanese, also present that were laughing and cutting up. My Father In Law most certainly gave them a piece of his mind. They shut up completely after that “conversation”.

And if history is truthful, Roosevelt knew this was coming. My father served in the the Navy in the Pacific, spent time in Hawaii. He never talked about what he saw. God bless all who served in WWII.

The picture reminds me of the Statler Brothers: “More Than a Name on a Wall”.

Such a touching song. Makes me think so much about the men who have fought and paid such a high price.
DD

My father enlisted in the Navy when he was 17. After basic training the Japanese surrendered so he never fought.
He joked he had a horseshoe where the sun don’t shine.

100-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor recalls confusion and chaos during Japanese bombing 83 years ago

https://nypost.com/2024/12/07/us-news/pearl-harbor-navy-survivor-bob-fernandez-recalls-japanese-bombing-on-83-anniversary/

FTA-
Bob Fernandez thought he’d go dancing and see the world when he joined the US Navy as a 17-year-old high school student in August 1941.

Four months later he found himself shaking from explosions and passing ammunition to artillery crews so his ship’s guns could return fire on Japanese planes bombing Pearl Harbor, a Navy base in Hawaii.

“When those things go off like that, we didn’t know what’s what,” said Fernandez, who is now 100. “We didn’t even know we were in a war.”

“I’m not a hero. I’m just nothing but an ammunition passer,” he told The Associated Press in a phone interview from California, where he now lives with his nephew in Lodi.

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He is a hero.
God bless our military veterans🙏

There is one of the many reasons they ARE the greatest generation!!!

I cannot comprehend what these mostly very young men had to endure that day. And in the days following. God Bless the souls who were lost that day, and the souls who have passed onto Heaven since. God Bless the few remaining survivors as we thank them profusely for their service.

Thank you to all Treepers, past and present who served or are serving our country’s armed forces. Coming from a long line of military service; You have a special place in my heart.

I will always my 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Albertson at Bonneyview Elementary School in Redding Ca, on Pearl Harbor Day 1972 say:

I will never buy a Japanese car!

She might have been in her 20s Dec 7, 1941. I will always wonder if she lost a family member or friend at Pearl Harbor that today. I think all my teachers back then were either in WWII or had family that served.

Blessings, gratitude and respect for those who make the ultimate sacrifice. 🙏🏻

We were a stronger people 83 years ago… now many are weak and whiny…

Also.. I now see that our government was full of Crap Weasels 83 years ago… it has just gotten worse.

In 1981 I boarded a small craft and set out from the pier near the sub base part of Pearl Harbor and set out for the USS Arizona memorial.

There my escorts raised an American flag, replacing the one that had flown before my arrival.

I then raised my hand and reenlisted on the platform above the deck of the tomb that lay on the bottom. They then lowered the flag and presented it to this humble ET3 (SS).

For the next 40+ years, and counting, I have worked in, around and for the USN and our allies around the world.

To this day I pray that I have, in some way, honored those who witnessed that day be they living or sitting with God.

I am living a very blessed life.

I salute my fellow Squids and especially the bubbleheads.

I thank God for people who stand up against evil.
My father served on Tiannemen island at the end of the war.
RIP, dad.

The second worst intelligence failure in the History of these United States.

🇺🇸🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻

This was a generation that, like my dad, grew up during the Depression. My dad was drafted and sent to the Army Air Corp, after Pearl Harbor. It was the first time in his life that he had three square mealsa day.

He kept a diary of his wartime experience, starting with the thrill of seeing the Statue of Liberty and the ocean for the first time. He was amazed at the design of the Panama Canal. He crossed the International Date Line and became a Shellback. His unit chased the Japanese throughout the Pacific.

He wrote about the hardships of war and seeing fighting for the first time. But, he couldn’t write after seeing so many of his buddies die fighting the Japanese. I think he suffered from PSTD for much of his life. War truly is hell. I’m so thankful that President Donald J. Trump is a man of peace. Thank you, Sundance, for honoring the memory of this day.

Yes, thank you. Please let us never forget. God bless the ‘greatest’ generation.

Today being December 7, a day that will live in infamy in American history, I post this to honor the memory of all who were involved in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

I visited the Battleship Arizona Memorial halfway through my Vietnam war tour in the summer of 1973. I was given a 10 day combat time off R&R, and I met my wife in Hawaii. The experience of touring the memorial was almost surreal. I felt a strong bond with all who were there repelling the attack on December 7, 1941, having just left a combat zone myself the day previous flying a World War II vintage EC-47 and now sitting in a tour boat with my wife and others paying our respects to the fallen heroes 32 years later.

One of my mother’s cousins was strafed and killed at Hickam Field while he was running to get into his airplane to help repel the attack. Two of her brothers were PT boat captains. One had three boats shot out from under him during various attacks on enemy ships. He suffered from a back injury for the rest of his life. My father-in-law quit high school and joined the navy and served on a destroyer in the South Pacific until the end of the war.

“voyceofreezin” over at WZ years ago found these old photos of my late father-in-law, 18 year old Hershel Flowers, and some entries in the ship’s logs of the destroyer “Putnam,” DD-757, regarding the heroic effort he and several other sailors made in saving the lives of more than 100 of the survivors of sister destroyer USS Twigs that was sunk during the battle of Okinawa.

He served on the destroyer USS Putnam in the South Pacific during World War II. He is the one in the middle, crouched down…he looks a little bit like Alan Ladd. Years later they had a joint reunion of Putnam and Twiggs sailors in San Diego, and he got to reunite with one of the sailors he had personally saved…pretty emotional reunion.

They actually entered the burning oil slick in a boat and then dived into the water searching for survivors. They would often have to sweep and splash the burning oil away with their arms and even submerge and swim around trying to locate survivors and then surface and grab them and swim with them back to the small boat. When they finally ceased rescue operations, they were all totally covered with diesel oil and had to be scrubbed and I believe they had to be hospitalized and put on meds for a few days.

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We must never forget what happened there that day that will live in infamy and never let it happen to us again…but we will need to rid the country of traitors first.

From April 2024:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/lou-conter-last-living-pearl-harbor-survivor-uss-arizona-dead-102

My dad joined up after hearing about the attack on the radio, he was 19. All my uncles also joined up, in various branches and theaters. They all came back home after the war, though one spent most of the rest of his life in hospitals.

This was a time when Americans did not bow down to tyrants and everybody pitched in to fight. And we kicked arse too.

God Bless all those who have fought to keep us free.

My Father-in-Law was in the Philippines and when he passed away I got his Colt 1911 .45 caliber service pistol with two mags. I will pass that special WWII gun on to my son and grandson and what it means to our freedom! RIP Al!

Thank you Sundance —I was going to share my collage from 2019 visit but seems post image is screwed up..
If I remember correctly i was privileged to see around 10 survivors and many many military vets and other military currently serving. Was really glad I packed a box of kleenex in my backpack for I nearly ran out before it was over.
One survivor still stands out in my mind. A 97 year old sailor who pretty much danced the 5 mile parade.
Sad that there are so few left to tell their story, stories and history which it seems the Globalist want to erase.
A legacy of valor: 16 Pearl Harbor survivors remain. On the 83rd anniversary, they are still heroes https://www.ksl.com/article/51206331/a-legacy-of-valor-16-pearl-harbor-survivors-remain-on-the-83rd-anniversary-they-are-still-heroes?utm_source=twitter_share&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=news&utm_content=us

I have a really funny feeling about President Trump being over in Europe on this particular day.

I couldn’t even tell you what the feeling is.

Remember Pearl Harbor! My father served in WWII as an air traffic controller. He had a very vital role on D-Day. He always talked about how he was one of the few who knew about D-Day ahead of time. First he was stationed in England then after D-Day moved over to France.

I now understand what a huge honor I was accorded when, as a kid, I worked for a man who was aboard the USS Arizona when it was attacked. He would tell us his story every year when we stopped for lunch while hauling hay. We would hear how he was blown off the deck by an explosion while running to his battle station in only his skivvies, t-shirt, and shoes, only to discover after swimming to Ford Island that his shoes were gone! Then there was my great uncle who would tell us, kids, his story, during which we would laugh hysterically because it included the part that he had just finished his morning “constitutional” and was leaving the latrine when the bombs began hitting the barracks. His humorous disclosure of his decision to immediately return to the latrine to “finish” the job always brought laughs!

I wish I had known enough then to fully appreciate what they had experienced.

Yes we must remember for more than one reason, not just the 2,403, for history is the engine of the future. This interview, beginning most specifically at minute 19:00 explains a serious issue to be dealt with. See the interview here, and the consequences are monumental to both our society and the Global community. The link: g edward griffin interviews norman dodd.

Be blessed, stay strong.

Thank you for pointing out this day.

Fewer, especially among the younger generations, still remember it.

And the sacrifice made by so many on that day.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. John 15:13

This Memorial is beautiful and solemn. You can still see the oil seeping out from the Arizona. You can definitely feel the souls all around you when visiting the Memorial. I was there last May and went with my Army son and daughter-in-law.

Within 30 days of the assault on us navy nearly 140,000 men inlisted.

Went there several times and it’s always a moving experience.

Also went to Punch Bowl Cemetery where many were buried along with young men serving in the Pacific Theater that did not have their bodies sent home.

Always try to be grateful for the many sacrifices. Countless sacrifices and suffering by so many.

So glad we got a chance to save our country. Let’s get it back for good this time.

Remember Pearl Harbor
83 years ago….the “greatest generation” took a massive blow on the chin. 83 years ago and the world, including some Americans say let it go, get over it…it is a different world today. True, it is a different world and the clash of diametrically opposed views of how and who defined “civilized” behavior still exists. Human life, other than their own, had very little real value to the Japanese/ Even other Asian nations were looked down upon with disdain and were treated in a brutally inhuman manner that western nations cannot begin to fathom. Remember the “Bataan Death March”, or the “Rape of Nanking”? ? Of course not, hell it was 83 years ago and modern history and those that record it tend to gloss over the gory details. The debate over the use of the Atomic Bomb is ludicrous…was it justified? Hell YES. Did innocent civilians die? No doubt.
After serving in the island hopping takeback of the Pacific, my father was staging in the Pacific to be part of the invasion force that was tasked with invading the mainland of Japan. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese died in those two explosions, that resulted in the unconditional surrender of Japan, but untold numbers of Japanese and American lives were saved…including, more than likely, my Marine fathers’ and therefore being a “boomer” my own. I hold a grudge, my father held a grudge and I have no regrets about the use of the “Bomb”. Remember Pearl Harbor

My grandfather who was in World War 1, enlisted again!
My father at 17 was granted permission and he went to war as did his older half-brother.

All U.S. Navy

Two Battleships sunk? The USS Oklahoma was struck by multiple Japanese torpedoes and capsized. There is a National Park Service Memorial at Pearl. Seems like a play on words. 429 members lost their lives. Kind of personal as I had five first cousins assigned to the Oklahoma. Four were there on that fateful day. One was among the dead. 2nd Class Laverne A. Nigg age 23. After this the geniuses separated the cousins. One cousin experienced this twice more in fighting the Japanese. Cat with seven or at least three lives. The family never gave up as many other families also kept up the pressure to identify the buried remains. Laverne was finally identified in April 2021 and returned to Browns Valley Minnesota to be buried.
The history of US wars need more attention. We continue to fund the war machines. It isn’t about protecting us, rather it makes more of the World hate us. Hopefully, Trump will be at least a four year setback to their perpetual war machine.

Father Aloysius Herman Schmitt was a U.S. Navy Chaplain on the USS Oklahoma on December 7, 1941.

This 32 year old native of Saint Lucas, Iowa and grandson of German Catholic farmer settlers, saved several sailors and sacrificed his own life.

A Navy ship is named in his honor.

Several videos about him and in honor of his service are available on the Internet.

This one is 14 minutes long.

My Dad was 18, working in a sugar factory throwing around 50 lb. Bags, and my mother was just starting high school. Each remembered exactly where they were that Sunday, because life just stopped. Dad joined the Army Air Corps , became a pilot and flew B-17’s and B-29’s and Mom volunteered with the USO. Very proud of their generation.

I worked with a Pearl Harbor survivor in the 70’s/80’s. He was 17 at the time.

My neighbor also was at Pearl, but he was Merchant Marine. He was 1st Mate on a tanker loaded with oil that day, on the other side of Oahu. He said you could plainly hear the explosions and even the roar of aircraft, but they never saw any planes; weren’t even sure who was doing the shooting at that point.

My dad had served a hitch in the National Guard in 39/40; he signed up for the Navy after Pearl. Spent the war in Australia working with the Japanese codes. Friends’ dads were telling their kids some of what they did, but my Pa still couldn’t tell us anything.

Some years ago, I had the opportunity to visit the USS Arizona Memorial, boarding the last launch for the day, just in time. In the quiet evening, with most of the visitors looking out over the rail, one child asked his brother about the iridescent oil leaks, still rising to the surface. “Momma says the ship is crying,” he answered.

Sumthin’ in my eye…

Doris “Dorie” Miller. Mess Attendent 3rd Class. Heavyweight boxing champ. Browning MG52A (water cooled) .50 gunner, 7 December, 1941.

https://news.va.gov/64767/doris-dorie-miller-hero-pearl-harbor/

God Bless the Great men & women of the WWII era and how they responded, we need that type of courage right now. The Wuhan Con (C-19) was as much a sneak attack as that terrible day Dec. 7th 1941 and killed many more people. We have to find the courage that parents showed.

God Bless America!

Here is an article that indicates FDR and a small group knew the Japs were going to attack somewhere. I tend to think this is a legitimate statement if the facts because it has new Ver been explained how all of the carriers were out to sea when the attack came, but this “story” puts forth a plausible answer.

The subject bears further study:

One of the biggest fake news stories of the last 100 years is the story — taught to American school children from early on and repeated ad nauseum without inquiry by the mainstream media — that Pearl Harbor was a “sneak attack” that caught America totally unaware because the Japanese were engaging in duplicitous peace negotiations, forcing the U.S. into World War II.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt was itching to get into the Second Great War, but the American public — with the horror of the “War to end all wars” still fresh — was strongly against American intervention. So Roosevelt set about goading both the Japanese and Germans — neither of which wanted to tangle with America.

The plan to entice a Japanese attack began in October 1940. Knowledge of the plan was limited to a few select loyal military and naval intelligence officials and a handful of trusted members of the Roosevelt administration. It is outlined in the McCollum memo — aka the Eight Action Memo — written by Lt. Commander Arthur H. McCollum, who provided Roosevelt with intelligence reports on Japan and oversaw every intercepted and decoded Japanese military and diplomatic report destined for the White House.

McCollum’s plan kicked into action on October 8, 1940, one day after the memo went to Roosevelt, and continued even while Roosevelt was telling the American public, “Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.”

The eight action items for provoking Japan were these:

Make an arrangement with Britain for the use of British bases in the Pacific, particularly Singapore.
Make an arrangement with Holland for the use of base facilities and acquisition of supplies in the Dutch East Indies [now Indonesia].
Give all possible aid to the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek.
Send a division of long-range heavy cruisers to the Orient, Philippines, or Singapore.
Send two divisions of submarines to the Orient.
Keep the main strength of the U.S. Fleet, now in the Pacific, in the vicinity of the Hawaiian islands.
Insist that the Dutch refuse to grant Japanese demands for undue economic concessions, particularly oil.
Complete embargo all trade with Japan, in collaboration with a similar embargo imposed by the British Empire.”
The last step in the plan was completed on July 26, 1941. In truth, the U.S. essentially declared war on Japan with its embargo. Any embargo enforced at the point of a gun is an act of war. America was also helping Japan’s enemy, China, with war material through the Lend-Lease program.

Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral James O. Richardson opposed FDR’s orders to station the fleet at Pearl, so FDR replaced him with Admiral Husband E. Kimmel in February 1941. FDR also placed, without Kimmel’s knowledge, Admiral Walter S. Anderson of the Office of Naval Intelligence as Kimmel’s third in command at Pearl Harbor and assigned him to supervise the radio intercept operation there.

Anderson, upon his arrival at Pearl Harbor, established his personal housing well away from the harbor on the other side of the mountain, giving him safety from the looming attack.

American intelligence learned in January 1941 that if hostilities broke out, the Japanese had decided to initiate a surprise attack at Pearl. It also learned that spies were making bombing maps of Pearl Harbor, but kept this information from Kimmel and the FBI.

American intelligence tracked the Japanese fleet through radio intercepts as it headed toward Pearl Harbor. On November 22, Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll issued a “Vacant Sea” order to clear all shipping out of the path being taken by the Japanese navy and, on November 25, ordered Kimmel to withdraw his ships patrolling the area from which the Japanese attack would take place. In the days before the attack, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold Stark (who was part of FDR’s circle and in on the plot) ordered Kimmel to move his aircraft carriers along with a large escort of the most modern ships to deliver planes to Midway and Wake Islands, leaving behind an enticing target of ships — though only the older WWI vintage ones — in Pearl.

In his magnum opus titled “Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath,” finally published in 2011, Hoover tells of the many diplomatic overtures the Japanese made to fend off hostilities. These FDR rejected outright.

Hoover then quotes from “Wedemeyer Reports!,” a book by General Albert C. Wedemeyer, a major in the War Plans Division of the Army stationed in Washington at the time of the attack:

When, on December 6, our intercepts told us that the Japanese were going to strike somewhere the very next day, whether in the Central Pacific or to the south in the Philippines and Dutch East Indies the President of the United States… could have gone on the radio and broadcast to the wide world that he had irrefutable evidence of an immediate Japanese intention to strike. This would have alerted everybody from Singapore to Pearl Harbor. Even though inadequate in some cases to defend effectively, nevertheless our forces would have been able to take a toll which would have blunted the Japanese attack. In Hawaii, the capital ships might have been moved out of the congested harbor to sea, where Admiral Kimmel had at least had the foresight to keep the far more vital aircraft carriers. Furthermore, our carrier task force in the mid-Pacific might have attacked the Japanese task force when its planes were aloft. There are many possibilities which would have given our men at least a fighting chance.

Wedemeyer also writes that “On December 4, 1941, we received definite information from two independent sources that Japan would attack the United States and Britain but would maintain peace with Russia.”

So FDR sacrificed much of the Pacific Fleet and worse still, 2,403 Americans killed and 1,178 wounded to get the U.S. into the war.

Then, after American victories at Midway and Coral Sea, the Japanese fleet was so crippled that offensive operations were no longer possible and there was no longer any chance of a Japanese invasion of the U.S. mainland, yet the administration still went through with its unlawful internment of West Coast Japanese Americans.

Other fake news as told by the American government and parroted by the MSM to drag (or attempt to drag) the U.S. into war include — but are not limited to — Fort Sumter, “Remember the Maine,” Gulf of Tonkin, Jessica Lynch, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Pat Tillman and chemical weapons attacks by Syria.

The real fake news sites — the mainstream media — will not tell you truths such as this.

I’ve often wondered if “The Greatest Generation,” would have been so ready to sacrifice themselves for Roosevelt’s bankster war if they had known the truth about Pearl Harbor and that Roosevelt and the communists in his State Department were bargaining away half of Europe to Josef Stalin and communist totalitarianism while they were fighting and dying in the South Pacific, North Africa and Europe.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter®

Ike Schab, a 104 year old survivor of Pearl, spent six weeks in physical therapy just to gain enough strength to stand up and salute during the ceremony this year. There are only 16 survivors still living.

https://www.carolinacoastonline.com/national/article_e99c9b6e-b4e2-11ef-bd4d-d36e9c9f9452.html

104 year old survivor of Pearl spends six weeks in physical therapy just to gain enough strength to stand up and salute during this years ceremony. There are only 16 living survivors. https://www.carolinacoastonline.com/national/article_e99c9b6e-b4e2-11ef-bd4d-d36e9c9f9452.html

My husband’s uncle, whom he never knew, perished on the USS Arizona. He was just 18. We have some of his handwritten letters, none of which hint of any rumors of the attack. May he and all those who died on that day of infamy RIP. Our oldest son, a Navy veteran, was able to visit the Memorial in Hawaii.

The last unknown was I.D’d and was buried yesterday from the Oklahoma. Great job tech guys.!!!

I saw no mention of it in The NY Times today. It has slipped their mind…..

The USS Utah (AG-16) wasn’t really a battleship anymore in Dec. 1941. It had been changed in 1931 to a AA training and target ship.

However, the USS Oklahoma (BB-37) capsized in the 7DEC41 attack, and never really recovered from the experience, so it could be marked as “sank.” It was eventually sold for scrap in 1946, and sank on the voyage to the San Francisco breakers yard in 1947.

As we remember this day, let us also remember and never forget….

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Had US President Millard Fillmore not believed in “Manifest Destiny”….

…..and had not ordered Adm. Matthew Perry to sail his steel-hulled warships into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853 in order to threaten the Tokugawa Shogunate using “gunboat diplomacy” to force open the door to an isolated Japan in demanding a trade agreement with Japan (just imagine the “chutzpah” to threaten a nation of proud samurai warriors)….

…..and then, 80 years later, telling Japan it had no business copying western civilization’s longstanding scheme of “colonialism” in it’s effort to emulate the US and western European nations so that it’s front door could never be kicked in again…

…well..

…there is every reason to believe that Pearl Harbor would never have happened.

This is why the bible tells us that the sins of the father are visited upon the next generations.