A Date which will live in Infamy!

Published: December 7, 2021, 5:32 pm

Updated: December 7, 2021, 6:29 pm

It's hard to believe that happened 80 years ago today. Twenty-five years later I can remember standing and giving a moment of silence in school. I knew two men that were in the Navy at Pearl Harbor that morning. Most of the men at the VFW I belonged to were WWII Vets and each of their lives were greatly effected when "the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan".

Roosevelt's speech.

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rcbbuckeye - Dec 7, 2021, 8:53 pm

My dad was on the battleship California that morning. I thought about it all morning. He was one of the lucky ones, men all around him were killed by a bomb.

Stack47 - Dec 8, 2021, 3:18 pm

Battleships were the primary targets. Played golf with a guy that was on a destroyer and saw one or two getting hit and fire everywhere. Can't imagine being below deck when the ship was hit.

Stack47 - Dec 11, 2021, 9:29 pm

A Navy gunner, Jackson C. Pharris aboard the California was one of 15 sailors awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for their actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

"In charge of an ordnance repair party on USS California, severely injured by explosions and twice rendered unconscious by nauseous oil fumes while setting up a hand-supply ammunition train for the antiaircraft guns, ordering shipfitters to counterflood to address a list (keeping the California in action), repeatedly entered flooding compartments to drag unconscious shipmates to safety."

Bet your dad knew him.

A Date which will live in Infamy!

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