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[Parischic]

@SurferWife
Thank you for taking the time to post this

[Parischic]

@SoCal Bred
Thank you for posting the photo. Its a sad but necessary remembrance.

[bmorechick]

@SurferWife   My dad died last year at the age of 98. He was a Navy veteran who served in the Pacific Fleet.  Pearl Harbor was the reason he joined.  

He was so proud of his service and often told stories about being in Pearl Harbor years after the attack.  Your sentiment is deeply true ... the freedoms we now enjoy were kept for us, because of them. I too pray...

[roeroe1005]

Thank you for this @SurferWife.

I visited Pearl Harbor about 15 years ago while on a Hawaiian cruise.  It took my breath away.  Like every other student, I learned about it in American History so many years ago, still see pictures on TV, and read news articles, but to stand right there and see the oil still floating on the water is heart breaking.

[SurferWife]

Oh, my goodness...the missing man fly-over....💔.  An emotional interview with the airmen & some Japanese survivors.  God bless them.  A canteen....to remember our soldiers and Japanese.  A healing between two former enemies.  It is the "blackened canteen ceremony" that brought them together.

[TerryNJ]

Beautifully said.

[Lucky Charm]

Visited the Arizona once about 25 years ago.   Very somber place to visit.    

I remember watching the film of the tragedy that had taken place that Lauren Bacall narrated and then on to the site of the sunken ship/memorial.

We were stunned by a busload of tourists there, chatting happily and taking snapshots.

We also visited the 'Punchbowl cemetary'.  Another sombering place.  The inscription by Lincoln on a statue: 

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

We hadn't remembered Pearl Harbor till we visited my dad tonight and I looked at his clock that also shows the date.  May all their souls be at rest.

[nrm]

@SurferWife We've been to Oahu twice. It's magnificent.

We visited the USS Arizona Memorial as well as the Punchbowl Crater. 
Seeing the USS Arizona was deeply moving and breathtaking ar the same time. 

[Etoile308]

The history of that day is fascinating and well worth studying and remembering. 

[LuvSoCal]

My SO and I were out at dinner this evening and he was remembering hiding under the bed at 4 yrs of age with his brother and sister while bombs were being dropped. What an experience to have lived through. Buildings just down the street from his home were reduced to rubble. He and his family moved to the mainland when he was 10.