Where were you on "day of infamy", Dec 7 1941? Where were you when you heard news? What'd you think?? Now?

Question

Does Dec 7 get forgotten, with the Christmas season?

Why did Hitler's allies attack the USA...waking up a "sleeping giant"? Was WWII a righteous war?

Does December 7th make you stop and think? Was that the "9-11" of that generation?

Are you old enough to remember what happened on Dec 7th, 1941?

If you were alive then, do you remember where you were when you heard?

What were your thoughts and feelings at that time?

How do you feel NOW?!?

Dec 7 1941 was a clear attack by the "Axis of Evil". Although Hitler did not attack America, he immediately declared war on the USA when his ally Japan did (maybe even before the U.S. declared war on him).

Still it was clear who to attack. They were nations at war.

Is this undeclared "third world war" an effort to create an Arab-controlled "one world government"?

It is not so easy to retailate, because it is not a nation or nations hat accept credit for world terrorism.

Rather it is their "anarchist" countrymen (like the anarchist assasin who provoked the first world war),

Could their aims possibly be directed by the coming Anti-Christ?

What are we up against, in this "war on terror"?!?

Answer 1

I was 9 years old, and mother and I were visiting my grandma for the weekend...grandma had neither a telephone nor a radio, so my father drove down from the city [about 50 miles away from grandma's little town] and told us about it and then took us home right away. At that time, we didn't know if the Japanese could get across the ocean and bomb the west coast of the US [which is where we were living] so we got very scared. I remember driving past the big Lockheed aircraft factory in Long Beach [then devoted to building stuff for the Brits] and seeing they had hung big camouflage nets over the roads going past the plant and there were big guns up on the roofs of the buildings. We were glad to get home and then my parents listened to the radio all night until we got some reassurance that no, the Japanese airplanes could not get across the Pacific after all. We had blackout practices and hung shades and curtains for night-time, and learned to recognize the woo-woo-woo of the air-raid siren a few blocks away. The feelings of war without any war on our country's soil...and our cousins in England were suffering so.

Answer 2

Where was I on the "day of infamy"? My parents were not even born yet. I myself was not born for anoTher 40 years.

Why did they attack us? Because Pear Harbor had a really strong naval base and they thought that it would weaken us if they destroyed that base before it could even do anything.

Dec. 7th was definitely the 9/11 of that generation. In fact, it was basically the 9/11 for every generation up until 9/11/2001. Now the attack on Pearl Harbor has been greatly overshadowed by the attack on the World Trade Center because a lot more people (civilians at that) got killed.

Answer 3

I was 3 week shy of my first birthday.

Hitler didn't attack us on Dec. 7, 1941. It was the Empire of Japan that attacked Pearl Harbor.

Japan had already signed on to Germany's side in the war in Europe. THat war had been raging for years before Pearl Harbor. Hitler was marching through Europe and conquering every country. Japan vowed to help them. Then they attacked our fleet.

The next day, FDR declared war with Japan and Germany and the U.S. finally got into the conflict.

It was nothing like 9/11. 9/11 was carried out by a bunch of rag-tags with no country, no army, no tanks, planes, ships, aircraft carriers, no generals, no soldiers. It was a terrorist attack.

The attack on Pearl Harbor was an all-out attack perpetrated by the country of Japan directly against the U.S.

Answer 4

I wasn't alive then but I heard the stories of Pearl Harbor from personal viewpoint . My Dad was stationed at Scoffleld Barracks on that dreadful Sunday morning.
The years have blurred our memory and shopping distracts us from many things.

1. Some thought Rosevelt allowd this attack so US would patriotically back the war. Can war ever be righteous when the innocent are victims?.
2. Yes, It was like 9-ll to them, we were attacked.
3. I was born in 1947.
4.You???
5.You???
I'm a patriot. This country may have it's problems but the USA is still the best country in the world. -Glenn Hoskins
Many men and women gave their life to make it so.
God Bless America!
Juju

Answer 5

I was six years old, probably too young to comprehend anything about it. I learned real fast when my only two uncles joined the Navy and Army. They were both gone for the entire war. I will never forget the day my uncle knocked on our back door home from the Pacific. I just stood there in shock and was so happy I could not speak. My other uncle came home soon, also. He was in Patton's 3rd Army trek across Germany and it took him a long time to recover from his service time.
We all bought victory stamps, attended the rallies, collected as much rubber, metal and paper as we could and were very patriotic. I remember my mother crying when President Roosevelt died. We were so happy when the war was over. Now, I wish that our country could come together and our leaders could find a way to never have to go to war ever again.

Answer 6

I wasn't born until Feb. 1942, but I heard often of that day as I grew up in a military family.

Recently some HAVE likened it to 9-11 and I suppose in many ways it was....suicide mission attacks....unexpected...devastating losses...leading to war...except '41 was country against country not terrorism

Answer 7

I am not old enough to have been around for that day. And Hitler was crazy . I may not have been around but I do remember the day when it comes around each year.

Answer 8

I wasn't born yet, but my sister was 5, Our dad was in the Air Force duing WWII

Answer 9

i was in washington a little while ago.
strange how apparently WWII was 1941-45
and WWI was 1917-18
im sure others would disagree. think it went on a tad longer than that :|

Answer 10

I wasn't even a 'twinkle' in anyones eyes. My Daddy was in Eritrea with the RAF.