Monday, December 07, 2009

December 7th

It's important that we remember this day. This day and what it represented formed the basis for my father's generation. All their hopes, dreams, what they were and what they became were based in part on events that occurred on December 7th, 1941.

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." Isoroku Yamamoto.

3 comments:

J said...

Sixty-eight years ago today my great-grandmother and my great-aunt Carrie moved in to this house I now live in. They tore down the old homestead house and built this one. While my great-grandmother and my great-aunt were moving in, another great-aunt drove out here to tell them the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. That's how we know when they moved in.

Old NFO said...

Thanks for remembering Paw- Lost tow realatives on USS Arizona.

skipelec said...

My stepfather was at Hickim AF when the japs came in.
He was standing between two tanks of mustard gas when they strafed.
Hit the dirt, missed him,missed the tanks, finished the War OK.