7 December...A day of infamy
 

...70 years go today.

Your kid was born?

Yep. even to this day its a sad thing.

What gets me is how many kids now days have NO clue about it.

This was the day you first faked your death right?

The attack on Pearl Harbor is observed annually on December 7, to remember and honor all those who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

It was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack was to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the UK, the Netherlands, and the United States.

The base was attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four being sunk. One hundred eighty-eight U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,402 Americans were killed and 1,282 wounded.

December 7, 1941. ... never forget.

A lot of history happened today...

And hardly anyone remembers...and it was only 70 years ago.

How's the old saying go? Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it?

Never forget.

America was just being "liberated." We do it to other people all the time, on a much large scale. Oddly, that's OK.

But boy... did those evil Japs get what was coming to them. Boom shakkalakka boom!

Result of insurgents action ....

.. then nation rebuilding ....

No, it was the day my father was born. My wife's dad was born a day later, on the eighth.

My grandpa (dead now) give me black and white photos taken on that day. I have about 20 of them, planes crashing into ships, ships on fire, ships sinking. Really neat old pics. Probably worth something.

Actually, with what the Japanese did to the Chinese, and the rest of south east asia (They made the Nazi's look almost civilized sometimes, in the way they treated civilians, and POWs). ....

I think they got off fairly light.

The germans lost more civilians in those thousand-bomber raids than the A-bombs killed...

"Niitaka-yama nobore"