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    Oddly Quiet in the Press on the Day that Will Live in Infamy

    I've seen not a single mention of this anniversary in the U.S. or foreign press today...and I read very, very widely.

    I was so surprised that I thought I might have gone senile and forgotten what the actual date of the attack was. So, I looked it up on Google.

    Yep, sure a shootin' today is that infamous date. But hardly a word about it, anywhere.

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    Pearl Harbor

    I heard mention of it on the radio, on my way in to work this morning. All of the remaining survivors are doing a ceremony there or something.

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    John Boy and Billy mentioned it on the Radio this morning

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    Fox news did a piece this morning. They had footage of the event and also visited a survivor for an interview. The old fellow is holding up well and uses web cam to communicate to others like he grew up using it.

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    I think a real hit song lasts 50 years. At 68 years of age most of the young today dont even understand what its about. Im sure 9-11 will also fade.......if it isnt already.

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    Well, I'm Glad Someone Remembers...

    ...the shock and horor and honor of that day.

    My own Dad was a Marine Artillery Officer right out of Rice University with a Political Science degree (or something like that, they called it something else back then) and joined the Marines about a year before Pearl. On the day of the attack, he was deployed along the beaches in front of San Diego and was responsible for installing beach defenses including howitzers.

    Within a couple of days it became clear that the Japs weren't going to attack the mainland. So, my Dad was ordered to embark for Pearl with his artillery unit. He was in Pearl on the 14th (he says but seems quick to me) just a week after the attack and said bodies were floating everywhere still. He was again deployed to the beaches and set up batteries near the mouth of the lagoon. But nothing happened at all for some time...

    ...except retrieving the bodies as they continued to wash up on shore in front of his guns. He said that lasted for about another week to 10 days before the marine life or the tides did away with the bodies.

    Other stories, guys? It's the day for them, I think.

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    Quote Originally Posted by longfisher View Post
    I've seen not a single mention of this anniversary in the U.S. or foreign press today...and I read very, very widely.

    I was so surprised that I thought I might have gone senile and forgotten what the actual date of the attack was. So, I looked it up on Google.

    Yep, sure a shootin' today is that infamous date. But hardly a word about it, anywhere.

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    I was thinking the same thing this morning. It's sad how stuff like this fades.

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    It was front page in all the papers around here. I don't know what rags you read diddler, but maybe thats part of your problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by giantfan View Post
    I was thinking the same thing this morning. It's sad how stuff like this fades.

    Yep. That's why history is destined to repeat itself.

    WWII
    korea
    Vietnam
    Iraq
    Iraq II
    etc....

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    Not Alone in My Observation

    Quote Originally Posted by nautiduck View Post
    It was front page in all the papers around here. I don't know what rags you read diddler, but maybe thats part of your problem.
    Well, I'm glad that at least one part of the country has remembered that day.

    But regarding what I read, I take the Houston Chronicle, the only real newspaper left in the Houston area. But I only take the weekend paper. So, there might have been an article about Pearl and I didn't see it.

    But as you can see from the other posters comments above I am hardly the only one who felt the day was not sufficiently remembered. Will you make a similar charge against them, Nauty? Or, do you reserve your venting only for me?

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