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Today is Veteran's Day (or, for those in the UK, Remembrance Day), a day dedicated to recognizing those who put themselves into harm's way in service to the rest of us.

THANK YOU!!

02TX996Cab wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 7:51 am Today is Veteran's Day (or, for those in the UK, Remembrance Day), a day dedicated to recognizing those who put themselves into harm's way in service to the rest of us.

THANK YOU!!

Agree!

02TX996Cab wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 7:51 am Today is Veteran's Day (or, for those in the UK, Remembrance Day), a day dedicated to recognizing those who put themselves into harm's way in service to the rest of us.

THANK YOU!!

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FRUNKenstein

"A date which will live in infamy..."

I was fortunate to visit Pearl Harbor in the early 70's. We took the boat out to the battleship Arizona memorial resting site. As I stood there and watching the diesel fuel still leaking to the surface some 30 years later I was overwhelmed with the sense of loss. My Dad had the WW2 photo books that showed, in part, Pearl the day of the attack and afterwards. I looked through these books numerous times as a child. Nothing prepared me for the feelings I went through the day I stood there above the Arizona.

This is truly a "Never Forget" day.

32wildbilly wrote: ↑Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:04 am "A date which will live in infamy..."

I was fortunate to visit Pearl Harbor in the early 70's. We took the boat out to the battleship Arizona memorial resting site. As I stood there and watching the diesel fuel still leaking to the surface some 30 years later I was overwhelmed with the sense of loss. My Dad had the WW2 photo books that showed, in part, Pearl the day of the attack and afterwards. I looked through these books numerous times as a child. Nothing prepared me for the feelings I went through the day I stood there above the Arizona.

This is truly a "Never Forget" day.

Well said, Billy.

Found this on Wikipedia:


Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island shortly after the beginning of the Pearl Harbor attack. View looks about east, with the supply depot, submarine base and fuel tank farm in the right center distance. A torpedo has just hit USS West Virginia on the far side of Ford Island (center). Other battleships moored nearby are (from left): Nevada, Arizona, Tennessee (inboard of West Virginia), Oklahoma (torpedoed and listing) alongside Maryland, and California. On the near side of Ford Island, to the left, are light cruisers Detroit and Raleigh, target and training ship Utah and seaplane tender Tangier. Raleigh and Utah have been torpedoed, and Utah is listing sharply to port. Japanese planes are visible in the right center (over Ford Island) and over the Navy Yard at right. U.S. Navy planes on the seaplane ramp are on fire. Japanese writing in the lower right states that the photograph was reproduced by authorization of the Navy Ministry.