She still weeps for her dead.
By LC 0311 Sir Crunchie I.M.H., K.o.E.
Former USMC infantryman, proud father of a current USMC infantryman and two Princesses who know what that means. Currently an NRA law enforcement firearms instructor, radar instructor, CPR instructor, a few others but you get the point. Catholic, conservative, heterosexual, gun owner, anything I can do to piss off liberals.
1,177 sailors and marines still at their stations aboard the Arizona. RIP.
After seeing where we are today as a country…you have to ask the question “Was their sacrifice worth it?” Especially after this little tidbit hit my Twitter box this morning: K-pop star PSY once advocated ‘slowly and painfully’ killing US soldiers He has the most-watched YouTube video ever (more than 900 million views), and is set to perform at the… Read more »
LC Light29ID: It may yet need to be inspiration for us all in the future.
Rest In Peace.
What can you say? It seems so inadequate…. For those of us old enough to remember.. Our fathers and their sacrifice… For no man can give more…. You have your place in eternity, guys… Regardless of what happens here… And in the hearts of grateful Americans….. It seems so inadequate,,,,, But Thank You just the same…… Rest in Peace……..I’d be… Read more »
LC Light29ID says: After seeing where we are today as a country…you have to ask the question “Was their sacrifice worth it?” Especially after this little tidbit hit my Twitter box this morning: K-pop star PSY once advocated ‘slowly and painfully’ killing US soldiers He has the most-watched YouTube video ever (more than 900 million views), and is set to… Read more »
LC Light29ID says: After seeing where we are today as a country…you have to ask the question “Was their sacrifice worth it?” Now I’m not going to deny that that very question has been on my mind as well from time to time, and more so as our society sinks ever deeper into the “me, me, me, ME! GIMME, GIMME,… Read more »
We’ll fix it, Misha.
A lot of folks are ready and just waiting for the rest of the unit to show up so we can get started.
Orion
my wife’s uncle carlos was at schofield barracks when they were attacked by the japs but the sargent would not open the ammo locker with out permission.he changed his mind when they were strafed by a jap plane.my wife and i never forget pearl harbor day.
For sure, my father and uncle will never forget Dec 7th. My duaghter did not understand the significance of the phrase, “A Day that will live in Infamy” when I said it to her yesterday! Public school indoctrination education… OUR fight has not come upon us suddenly, but crept up slowly. We must and WILL fight back. Keep the faith,… Read more »
I ask the question because two generations away from the “Greatest Generation” we have created an America that is not worth one ounce the blood and toil that our forefathers went through. All those generations thought that what they were doing and sacrificing was for their children only to see their children suffer their own heartbreaks. The Pilgrims suffered famine… Read more »
Silence and respect.
LC Light29ID says: Every previous generation had to be reminded that what we have was a gift because they had to suffer as a generation. What we have running around now are nothing more than spoiled little brats who need the shit beat out them and are neither deserving or entitled to the freedoms that we have. I just don’t… Read more »
Excellent, Sire. And we will be taken down a peg ot two as a result. The grasshoppers looking to consume the ants.
There is conflict coming, of what sort I cannot say…….but the more they reach for, and they will, the greater the growing rsistance.
LC Light29ID @ #: I was at Pearl Harbor last year for the 50th anniversary. One of the most moving experiences of my life. Remember this: as long as the USS Arizona remains at anchor (and the sadder USS Utah across Ford Island), the soul of America has a defiant marker against tyranny. Those men still aboard continue to serve… Read more »
FrJim, Imperial Chaplain says: Excellent, Sire. And we will be taken down a peg ot two as a result. Yes, we will. We deserve the spanking. And we’ll build something better on top of that mess. Because that’s what separates us from them. We KNOW that the drive for liberty, that liberty itself, will always, always succeed in the end… Read more »
FrJim, Imperial Chaplain @ #:
Of what?
Last year was the 70th…. But I digress. Time to reread Infamy by John Toland and at Dawn We Slept. Attend me a moment pups. I will tell you of a gentleman who spent most of his life after attempting to clear the names of Admiral Kimmel and General Short who were put up for slaughter by the War Dept.… Read more »
LC Spare Parts @ #17: There’s at least one line of thought that FDR was spoiling for war with Japan in part because of the failure of the New Deal. America started off in a better position than Europe during the Great Depression, yet our recovery was far slower. (Unemployment actually increased under FDR until around 1940 and the run… Read more »
For a man who holds a special place in my heart. Who answered the call. My Grandfathers foot stone.
He never would talk about it. Never joined the VFW, or any of the vets groups.
Why We Fight. Imperial Japan’s true nature — read here at “the Battling Bastards of Bataan”* about the Sack of Manila: http://www.battlingbastardsbataan.com/som.htm (This account of the wholesale destruction of Manila and its people is based on affidavits of victims and eyewitnesses of Japanese atrocities. Their testimony was collected by U. S. forces which liberated Manila. The affidavits were contained in… Read more »
Emperor Misha I @ #: In MY America, we used to learn this famous poem in school. Kinda says it all. “If” If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can… Read more »
@Tallulah:
Thank you. I needed that.
Orion
Tallulah..#20.which is why I never felt a shred of sympathy or guilt for the use of nuclear weapons twice, or the massive firebombing of Tokyo by a fleet of B29’s, incinerating an entire city. . It is against our nature, but two can play that game…..my dads year in a German POW camp, and his related experience, also did the… Read more »
LC HJ Caveman82952 says: Tallulah..#20.which is why I never felt a shred of sympathy or guilt for the use of nuclear weapons twice, or the massive firebombing of Tokyo by a fleet of B29?s, incinerating an entire city. . It is against our nature, but two can play that game…..my dads year in a German POW camp, and his related… Read more »
on my birthday and the day after, bombs away la may’s 1,000 plane raid on tokyo killed more japs than the A bombs.mcarthur hung the jap commander of Manila and killed most of the japs in the philippines.a few years ago i was at work on pearl harbor day and i heard some young people talking about how we should… Read more »