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| Survivors to Mark Pearl Harbor Anniversary | |
| 2005-12-07 | |
A U.S. Navy ship will honor the USS Arizona, which lies submerged in Pearl Harbor with the bodies of hundreds of sailors still aboard. The Hawaii Air National Guard will fly F-15s in formation over the harbor. The Navy's chief uniformed officer, Adm. Michael G. Mullen, is scheduled to address the crowd along with Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, who saw and heard Japanese planes drop bombs on Oahu as a teenager in Honolulu. Navy reservists from the USS Ward, which fired the first shots of the war when its crew spotted and sank a Japanese midget submarine, will also be honored. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
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| Posted by: dhgmk 2005-12-07 02:17 |
| #4 The crew of the USS Ward never got confirmation that they had sunk the midget sub until 2002 when it was discovered on the ocean floor with a nice round hole in the conning tower from the Ward's #3 gun. Sadly the Ward itself was sunk by a suicidal Japanese pilot three years to the day later on Dec. 7, 1944, near the Phillippines. If that weren't enough irony for you, after it was abandoned the Ward was finished off by gunfire from the USS O'Brien, commanded by William Outerbridge--the same officer who commanded the Ward on that infamous day three years prior! |
| Posted by: Dar 2005-12-07 12:34 |
| #3 What it took to break the Japanese is not what needs to be remembered. What needs to be remembered is the civilian reaction to 2,000 "volunteers" in the Navy being killed vesrus the response 62 years later to 3,000 innocent civilians being killed. We're a different country. And it's not yet clear for the better. Decap Tehran. |
| Posted by: Thater Cravitle6893 2005-12-07 09:29 |
| #2 ...We lost two thousand at Pearl to a nation we now consider a true and solid ally. We lost three thousand on 9/11 to nations whose governments can barely hide their hatred of us and whose people wish our mass murder and enslavement. Anybody remember what it took to break the Imperial Japanese of that attitude? Never, ever forget. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2005-12-07 08:41 |
| #1 Never forget. thanks for the posting Steve W. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-12-07 03:40 |