Keeping the blogosphere posted on the goings on of the world of submarines since late 2004... and mocking and belittling general foolishness wherever it may be found. Idaho's first and foremost submarine blog. (If you don't like something on this blog, please E-mail me; don't call me at home.)
Eagle1 remembers Pearl Harbor in pictures. For me, the picture that says the most about the meaning of that day is a more recent one -- one that shows the symbol of the war starting for America alongside the symbol of the war's end: USS Arizona (BB 39) and USS Missouri (BB 63).
"Rest easy, sleep well my brothers.
posted by Bubblehead at 12:07 AM
I'm Joel Kennedy -- a married, 50-something year old retired submarine officer and esophageal cancer survivor with three kids who has finally made the transition to civilian life. Politically, I'm a Radical Moderate. (If you don't like something on this blog, please E-mail me. Don't call me at home.)
6 Comments:
For some reason I had forgotten the 7th is upon us. Thanks for the reminder.
12/07/2006 1:45 AM
I read comments from the Pearl Harbor Survivors that this, the 65th anniversary of the bombing, will be the last time these great people will meet as a group due to their advancing ages. I have had the opportunity to meet and talk with some of them at Pearl Harbor, and feel I am better for it.
RBP
12/07/2006 5:50 AM
An online friend's mother was a child in Hawaii at the time, and saw the attack from the rooftop of their house.
Don and I got to visit Pearl Harbor briefly several years ago, but hadn't time to go out to the memorial. Most disappointing.
Need to go rent "Tora! Tora! Tora!" or "In Harm's Way".
12/07/2006 1:43 PM
Tokyo. Thanksgiving 1970. 5-6 Lt(jg)s in Japan from NavCommSta Guam (Hafa Adai, y'all) decided to see Tora Tora Tora. Entered the theater after the flick started; sat anonymously in the middle of things. A lot of patrons laughing as the cine-Americans ignored the warnings and got the $h!t kicked out of them.
Now the flick's over, the lights come up, and the Japanese realize that there are round-eyes in the theater with them. Complete silence as (literally) everyone in the theater stood silently and allowed us to talk out before anyone else left. A little eerie, even after 35+ years.
12/07/2006 4:27 PM
things looked mighty bad back then.
We lost almost as many men in 2 hours then we have lost in 3.7 years of combat in Iraq.
But we stayed the course, and through strong resolve prevailed.
12/07/2006 8:47 PM
I visit the Arizona Memorial when in Hawaii (every year for the past 6 years). The majority of the visitors always seem to be Japanese.
Then I go over to the Missouri. The Japanese... not so many.
12/08/2006 6:39 PM
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