Pearl Harbor Day

[Truth Detector]

62 years ago today was a day which shall live in infamy.

On this day we salute all who were there that fateful day as well as those who were involved in the payback.

[autoracingfan2]

Every day I learn more and more about our history and what those men and women went through back then. From us too young to remember a time when the U.S. was seriously threatened, thank you to all who gave us our freedom and continue to defend it.

[indyracefan]

....I've been to Pearl Harbor and the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial.

I'm sure it's something different to everyone but none-the-less emotional and something everyone should experience & see with their own eyes at least once in their lifetime.

[Indycarjunkie]

Pearl Harbor is on my must see list of things before I die. May got bless the survivors and may God rest the souls of those who didn't.

[CrewChief]

Amen and God Bless

[SoDak_IndyFan]

December 7th, 1941
September 11th, 2001

...both days of infamy that were and shall be avenged to the betterment of all mankind.

[grogg]

Some of the Veterans of Pearl Harbor volenteer as tour guides for the USS Arizona Memorial. I hope I am lucky enough to get over their while they are still around.

I watched the History Channel and it was quite a good account of the attack and the events leading up to it. I was amazed at the end when they brought the Japanese WW2 vets of Pearl Harbor.

One US vet of the USS West Virginia met the Japanese Pilot that struck the WV hard. They hugged each other and the US Vet told him there was no need for apologies because you were a soldier at war. Another Seaman vet couldn't bring himself to extend a hand in forgiveness (partially because of the severe burns he carried with him to this day I would guess). Emotions about this meeting must have run the gambit.

[PHJIndy]

We should NEVER forget!!

[indyracefan]

Originally posted by PHJIndy
We should NEVER forget!!

[Truth Detector]

Incredible picture, indyracefan.

[IndyMJH]

I first time I ever truly appreciated what these men and women went through was the first time I ever saw a B-17B Bomber in person. I was expecting this huge aircraft, of being completely overwhelming just by it's mere presence. What I saw was this tiny little airplane that looked like a fly swatter could knock it out of the sky. Then while touring the plane and looking out the side gun mounts and wondering what it would have been like at 30,000 feet, the temperature below zero, loaded down by a flack jacket, and knowing those little flashes of light coming from incoming German or Japanese planes were actually them trying to KILL you. I was overwhelmed, but not in the way I was expecting.

THE GREATEST GENERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL, and thank you for my wonderful freedoms.

[IndyJim]

Truly a great generation of men and woman who served in WW2.

I had never seen a picture at this angle before, it is quite moving.

God Bless America.

[Doc Austin]

Here is Blair Peppel, Pearl Harbor veteran, family man, and a true man's man. Gods speed, Dad!

[Sybil D. Sobydianz]

80 years, now...

[Jim Wilke]

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An Oregon family has turned to crowdfunding to send their 101-year-old Navy veteran dad back to Pearl Harbor — where he heroically helped fend off Japan’s surprise attack 80 years ago.

Kimberlee Heinrichs’s GoFundMe page had raised nearly $9,000 of its $10,000 goal as of early Saturday.

Her father, Ira “Ike” Schab, was a U.S. Navy musician, assigned to the destroyer USS Dobbin, on the quiet Sunday morning of Dec. 7, 1941, according to Hawaii News Now. He had planned to meet his brother, when Japanese planes began to attack.

“It’s hard what to say the feeling that runs through your mind. You’re scared. You don’t know what’s going to happen next,” Schab told the outlet. “When I realized we were under attack I got busy doing what I was told, passing ammunition and getting that sort of stuff done.”

Schab was just 21 years old on that date which lives in infamy.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/04/navy-vet-ira-schaub-101-gofundmes-trip-to-pearl-harbor/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter

Note: Raised over $16,000, a couple of bucks from me.

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