Did you remember that today is the sixty sixth anniversary of Pearl Harbor? I wonder how many men and women who were there are still living? I was three at the time, and my dad was in the Merchant Marines. Not in Hawaii, however.
2007-12-07 04:54:08 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
My Uncle Mike is the only one of my Uncles that fought in WW2 that is still alive......My Godfather is very sick he also fought in that war........My father and four other uncle fought in WW2 .......All made it home. My father passed last year and my four uncles passed before my dad.....My Uncle Albert was in the Koren war and he also is died.....I need to get my dog and go for a walk.........I miss them and I am crying....
2007-12-07 05:11:03 · answer #1 · answered by abuelamah 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
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.
2016-04-07 23:53:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rest In Peace
In Memory of John Woodbury
December 7 th 1941
2007-12-07 06:28:18 · answer #3 · answered by Veritas 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was 4 years old. My parents had gone outside after their breakfast and I was in the house alone for a short while. I was busy standing on a chair and making my cup of coffee from the remains in their cups, adding a lot of cream and sugar. I don't know what attracted my 4 year old attention but I heard the radio announcer say "The Japs have bombed (attacked) Pearl Harbor". My parents came in soon after and I told them what I had heard and at that point everything fell apart at our house. My Dad went down and signed up to join the military as did many men at that time. He was ruled 4F however and didn't go. I had many other relatives from both sides of my family who did go and they all came back safe.
2007-12-07 11:26:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My parents had been married 10 months and I was to come along two and a half months after Pearl Harbor..My Dad was in the Army at the time
2007-12-07 05:04:48 · answer #5 · answered by sage seeker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My neighbor is a Pearl Harbor Survivor. I stopped by earlier and talked with him for over an hour. December 7th is a hard day for him as he lost several friends in 1941. I met him when I moved in here in 1983. Two old vets who have tipped a few bottles together (his wife allows him one a day).
2007-12-07 14:00:12 · answer #6 · answered by AmericanPatriot 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was approaching my third birthday. My half-brother was stationed at Schofield Barracks. He was waiting with his duffle bag for a bus which would take him to the Aloha Clock Pier in Honolulu to board a transport that would take him to Fort Mason in San Francisco. There he would muster out of the Army and take a train home in time for Christmas in Brooklyn. The Japanese spoiled those plans and he left the Army in late 1945, after fighting in most of the island-hopping campaigns under General MacArthur.
My family saved one letter from him dated December 1, 1941 where he wrote that he had been issued the first live ammo he had seen since basic training and was under one alert after another.
2007-12-07 07:20:06 · answer #7 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Can't say I remember Pearl Harbour I like you was three at the time . I do remember when viewing the events of 9/11 on British TV recalling the words of the Japanese admiral who when congratulated by his staff said" I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant " those people in the middle east would do well to remember them"
2007-12-07 06:49:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was 2 weeks short of my 1st birthday.
I do remember when the war ended, however....as much as a 5-year old can anyway.
My father was career Army, 7th Cavalry, mounted.
My mother worked in the shipyards as a welder and at the railroad yards during the war.
2007-12-07 05:17:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My mother was living in Germany at the time and was 4 years old. She remembers times when 1 potato had to make soup for all of them. And a ham bone if they were lucky.
2007-12-07 12:12:05 · answer #10 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wasn't born yet. I was born in 1942. I had two uncles who
were both in the Navy at Pearl Harbor. The U.S.S. Lexington was anchored right next to my uncle's ship. He saw the whole thing. Luckily, his ship was spared. I grew up hearing them tell about it
2007-12-07 08:34:43 · answer #11 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋