A Day Which Will Live in Infamy
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Patriotman currently ekes out a survivalist lifestyle in a suburban northeastern state as best as he can. He has varied experience in political science, public policy, biological sciences, and higher education. Proudly Catholic and an Eagle Scout, he has no military experience and thus offers a relatable perspective for the average suburban prepper who is preparing for troubled times on the horizon with less than ideal teams and in less than ideal locations.
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My grandfather took the seventh picture, and many more from his ship the USS Argonne.
Fascinating!
The pictures above of the attack on Pear Harbor are some of the best that I have seen. Thank you. Who is John Galt?$
My grandfather was an AA 40mm gunner on the Essex. Served until the end of the war. He brought home pieces of a Japanese “Judy” dive-bomber that flew into his carrier in a kamikaze attack. His station was aft up on the island, it flew right over his head. I still have the pieces, and showed them to my Sunday school class last Sunday.
These photos are the result of our government’s meddling in the affairs of the policy’s of foreign governments (ie: Japan). Roosevelt knew full well the outcome/s of embargoes placed upon Japan and such a response and attack upon US interests were anticipated (actually expected) in a scheme to bring the USA into a war with Germany and Japan. Funny thing about the war with Japan–the USA won the war, but Japan won the peace in the long run. Many of our major cities resemble Hiroshima and Nagasaki presently–while the major cities in Japan which were fire bombed into ashes now resemble something out of a Star Trek movie. If you travel within Japan and talk to Japanese people the subject of WWII is rarely spoken of as their minds are set upon the future and they do not dwell upon the past. Here in the USA all we do is dwell upon long held grudges and past glories that have long since faded and no longer relevant. Soon Pearl Harbor will have the same relevance as the Battle of Tippecanoe. This country has since shitted-away all political and economic post WWII good will and gains in the last four decades. Now we are meddling with a heavy hand in the affairs of the world’s preeminent nuclear power (Russia) in a conflict that holds no national interest for the USA–the next “Pearl Harbor” might now be a nuclear one… with no post war recovery possible.
Agreed. We were meddling then to be involved in war and have continued to do so without interruption since.
We do not have enough Men like that anymore.
It’s gonna hurt, real bad this time…Real Bad.
Shinmen and June: Who are these “we” of whom you speak? Those who perpetrated the follies you rightly condemn consulted neither our parents, grandparents nor most of us in these years since, neither did they seek our advice or consent.
We did not do these things. We were told it was a matter of national survival. We went and did our duty as we were able to understand it. Faced with regimes whose intentions were anything but honorable, who indeed were making no secret of their intentions to conquer and rule by war and the iron fist, this was not an unreasonable conclusion.
Roosevelt gets very few props from me but, facing the situation described above, he may have done the only thing he could have. Had the Axis powers been allowed to proceed unopposed by the might on the US, they would only have become ever more powerful and dangerous enemies. Such power madness is never satiated. Suppose Germany had gotten The Bomb first? They very nearly did anyway in spite of our bombing campaign. They certainly would have taken Britain, perhaps even Russia, without our aid…. This reasoning certainly figured heavily in the strategic considerations of the admin and War dept. at the time.
I agree, we squandered the great opportunity we had for peace and plenty, astride the world like a colossus at the end of WW II, which proved to be too great a temptation for corporate opportunism and military adventurism. And then, there was the Soviet and Chinese communist threats….
Eisenhower was right but unheeded.