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| A thought on this day. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 7 2011, 06:39 AM (778 Views) | |
| VPG | Dec 7 2011, 06:39 AM Post #1 |
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Pisa-Carp
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It was a really cold afternoon. A bunch of us kids went to a Sunday afternoon matinée at the Kent Theatre In Philadelphia. In "Philly" those day's they had the Blue Laws. No bars open on Sunday, and the movies could not open before 2:00 P M. Not long after the show started, the Western was always first on double feature day's, a slide was put up at the bottom of the screen announcing that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian Islands. As kids we had no idea what the hell that meant. I asked one of the Ushers, an old guy about sixteen, and he said it looks like we're going to go to war. I went back to my seat and told the other guy's. The kid sitting next to me, Carl, he said. "do you think your older brothers would go"? I thought they would. I asked him about his Father. Carl's Father was killed just about two years later in the Pacific. Give some thought about December 7, 1941. |
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I'M NOT YELLING.........I'M ITALIAN...........THAT'S HOW WE TALK! "People say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look." Ronald Reagan, Inaugural, 1971 | |
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| Copper | Dec 7 2011, 06:44 AM Post #2 |
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Shortstop
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There is a nip in the air today. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Mikhailoh | Dec 7 2011, 06:49 AM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Thanks Vince. That is well worth remembering and gives me much to think about today. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| George K | Dec 7 2011, 06:54 AM Post #4 |
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Finally
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Thanks, Vince, for remembering for all of us and for a personal note on this day. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Copper | Dec 7 2011, 07:01 AM Post #5 |
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Shortstop
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http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/07/9263923-pearl-harbor-from-above-1941-2011?fb_ref=.Tt9ht64RXnc.like&fb_source=home_oneline
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| big al | Dec 7 2011, 07:04 AM Post #6 |
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I was thinking about Pearl Harbor this morning and wondered how long the day will live in infamy. Other than historians, I wonder how many recall the dates of many (or any) battles in earlier wars this country has fought. I was born after WW II so I have no recollections, only second-hand stories that I read, heard, or saw, but it was so near my era that I knew many veterans of that conflict. To younger generations, it must be as removed as the Spanish-American War or WW I were to me. In that sense, I think the change of Armistice Day to Veterans or Remembrance Day was a good decision. It's a time to honor the memory of all veterans of all battles and wars, not just a certain or recent one. Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| Chris Aher | Dec 7 2011, 07:13 AM Post #7 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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This was actually the pivotal event of the 20th century in my opinion. It forced the US to expand its horizons beyond the western hemisphere. If that had not happened, in Europe, either the Germans or the Soviets would have dominated. In Asia, the Japanese military would have plundered at will. The western hemisphere would have economically died on the vine, so to speak. The JFK assassination and 9/11 pale in comparison with regards to long term consequences. I would very much like to hear Renauda's opinion on this, with his in depth knowledge of history. |
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Regards, Chris | |
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| Axtremus | Dec 7 2011, 07:27 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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| Kincaid | Dec 7 2011, 09:35 AM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Interesting how things change overtime - not sure why it was but even though Vietnam was supposedly all over the evening news, I was never aware it was going on until about 1974, when it was all but over. I was born in March, 1963, so maybe I was just too young and my parents didn't watch the news. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| brenda | Dec 7 2011, 10:24 AM Post #10 |
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Powerful memory, Vince. Thanks for sharing. |
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| ivorythumper | Dec 7 2011, 12:02 PM Post #11 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Pearl Harbor Survivors group to disband They carried the banner for 70 years. God bless them. |
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| PattyP | Dec 7 2011, 12:12 PM Post #12 |
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Senior Carp
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very poignant |
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A tired dog is a good dog. "Dogs' lives are too short...their only fault, really." A.S. Turnbull | |
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| jon-nyc | Dec 7 2011, 12:14 PM Post #13 |
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Cheers
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Saw that this morning, IT. Sad but almost surprising the group is still around. |
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