December 7th 1941

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Our nation changed 76 years ago when we were attacked by Japan Dec 7, 1941.























absent companions...

 

[Kurtr]

I have been to the memorial and it is something that will stick with me for ever.

 

[dust in the wind]

I was there in January of this year. A visit that will stick with me as well.

 

[Allen]

Odd how things change over time. Japan is our best friend in the Pacific nowadays, second to none.

 

[ejolliffe]

My grand father is full blooded Hawaiin and even though he passed on January at 90 years old, he always was asked about this day. He always said with a smile, we were scared as shit.....They don't make men like that era much anymore do they....

 

[PrairieGhost]

I have been to the memorial and it is something that will stick with me for ever.

Same here, but looming down into those sunken ships made it more real to me than the modern structure above water. That had to be a terrible ordeal.

 

[Allen]

Having been to both Pearl Harbor and the Normandy Beach area of France, I am very comfortable saying that the carnage of WWII is just something we young'uns can't grasp. Nor can we fully fathom what it meant to be a member of our military back then. For heaven's sake, they didn't even have a GPS to tell them where they were on the planet!

 

[fj40]

My Dad was an NCO with the 164th Infantry National Guard and after Pear Harbor, he was sent to muster at Walla Walla, Washington. My mother jumped the train and went out there and they married up. After a month or so, he was shipped to Guadalcanal leaving my then pregnant mother to head back to Milnor. My oldest brother was over 3 years old before my dad got to meet him. That was one tough generation.

 

[LBrandt]

I can remember the names of a handful of men from Wyndmere who served in the 164th.

 

[fj40]

The 164th was the first US Army unit to engage the enemy in the Pacific theater. I believe also, that they are the only army unit authorized to wear the us Marine Corps patch on their uniform.

 

[ndfinfan]

Odd how things change over time. Japan is our best friend in the Pacific nowadays, second to none.

Look how our relationship with England began...took WWI to really "bring us together"!