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Offline Selino631

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Remember Pearl Harbor
« on: December 07, 2011, 11:33:30 AM »
I think its kinda sad how the average American either forgot or has no idea what happend on this day 70 years ago. Hopefully this day really will live in Infamy. same as 9/11

 :salute to the our greatest generation of Americans who worked there butt off and made this country proud as well as my fellow service members today and all in between.


this is a quick interview ABC did with my grandfather on my moms side of the family (John Dibetta) from his experince at Pearl Harbor. he was a Sailor aboard the Cruiser, USS Detroit, if ur interested i can post his entire story, its actually pretty interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUCv5IZNArU
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Re: Remember Pearl Harbor
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2011, 12:13:09 PM »
 :salute To those who fell and those who continued until the job was done. Thank you for making my world safe for me and mine.
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Re: Remember Pearl Harbor
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2011, 12:59:26 PM »
It used to be that December 7 would be non-stop coverage and commemoration. This year Pearl Harbor didn't even make it to the "On this day" on the Wikipedia home page.  :furious

I'll give them partial props for making Arizona today's featured article.
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Re: Remember Pearl Harbor
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2011, 01:16:26 PM »
Quote from: Saxman on December 07, 2011, 12:59:26 PM
It used to be that December 7 would be non-stop coverage and commemoration. This year Pearl Harbor didn't even make it to the "On this day" on the Wikipedia home page.  :furious

I'll give them partial props for making Arizona today's featured article.
I will refrain from ranting about history elitists, and instead say this. (That counts as my rant)

The fact is, people are less connected to Pearl Harbor than decades ago. People that were alive and remember when it happened, had a lot more connection to the event emotionally and would watch non-stop coverage of it.

Today, very few people are still alive that remember Pearl Harbor. To most people, the significance is it was the event that lead the United States into WWII. If it were on non-stop all day, people would turn the channel, or go watch Netflix. You see 9/11 stuff on all the time because the vast majority of the population remember it, over time that will fade too.

It will be remembered, and people know the significance. But it will lose its emotional meaning.
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Re: Remember Pearl Harbor
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2011, 01:31:40 PM »
Quote from: Raptor on December 07, 2011, 01:16:26 PM
I will refrain from ranting about history elitists, and instead say this. (That counts as my rant)

The fact is, people are less connected to Pearl Harbor than decades ago. People that were alive and remember when it happened, had a lot more connection to the event emotionally and would watch non-stop coverage of it.

Today, very few people are still alive that remember Pearl Harbor. To most people, the significance is it was the event that lead the United States into WWII. If it were on non-stop all day, people would turn the channel, or go watch Netflix. You see 9/11 stuff on all the time because the vast majority of the population remember it, over time that will fade too.

It will be remembered, and people know the significance. But it will lose its emotional meaning.


Unfortunately, truth.

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Offline SgtPappy

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Re: Remember Pearl Harbor
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2011, 04:55:09 PM »
 :salute

More and more it seems the world forgets about all that has happened in human history. I posted in another thread how it seems my own community is forgetting about our own history by evicting an air and space museum. If you guys can, please help sign the petition over there: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,324781.0.html
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Offline curry1

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Re: Remember Pearl Harbor
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2011, 08:02:56 PM »
A date that will live in infamy.

Reddit was down.
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Re: Remember Pearl Harbor
« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2011, 09:25:15 PM »
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Re: Remember Pearl Harbor
« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2011, 09:43:59 PM »
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Offline guncrasher

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Re: Remember Pearl Harbor
« Reply #9 on: December 07, 2011, 10:21:48 PM »
Quote from: curry1 on December 07, 2011, 08:02:56 PM
A date that will live in infamy.

Reddit was down.

it dies a little every time it gets misquoted.


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Offline IrishOne

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Re: Remember Pearl Harbor
« Reply #10 on: December 07, 2011, 10:38:39 PM »
Quote from: guncrasher on December 07, 2011, 10:21:48 PM
it dies a little every time it gets misquoted.


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he got one word wrong.   his heart is obviously in the right place.    chill out.


 :salute Pearl Harbor vets, and all vets for that matter
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Offline curry1

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Re: Remember Pearl Harbor
« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2011, 12:01:40 AM »
Quote from: guncrasher on December 07, 2011, 10:21:48 PM
it dies a little every time it gets misquoted.


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My bad.
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Offline guncrasher

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Re: Remember Pearl Harbor
« Reply #12 on: December 08, 2011, 01:14:02 AM »
Quote from: IrishOne on December 07, 2011, 10:38:39 PM
he got one word wrong.   his heart is obviously in the right place.    chill out.


 :salute Pearl Harbor vets, and all vets for that matter


I understand that but to be honest it must be remembered how it was.  no more no less, we owe it to them.  you cant say say independence day is on the 5th just because your heart is in the right place.


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Re: Remember Pearl Harbor
« Reply #13 on: December 08, 2011, 10:59:23 AM »
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Re: Remember Pearl Harbor
« Reply #14 on: December 08, 2011, 03:06:12 PM »
It never ceases to amaze me how rampant the conspiracy theories that Pearl Harbor was intentionally allowed to be bombed have grown. Every online news article about this year's commemoration I've read was absolutely FLOODED with all that nonsense in its comments section.
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