A date which will live in infamy ....

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Dec 7th 2007, 9:33 pm

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Re: A date which will live in infamy ....

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I give up.

Well I have memories of the memorial. Being 25 I was obviously not alive at the time of Pearl Harbour.

Dec 7th 2007, 9:39 pm

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Re: A date which will live in infamy ....

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Well I have memories of the memorial. Being 25 I was obviously not alive at the time of Pearl Harbour.

............you don't look a day older than 24

Dec 7th 2007, 9:41 pm

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Re: A date which will live in infamy ....

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Originally Posted by Leslie66

I give up.

sorry honey.

I will sit and watch the Pearl Harbor Day special on the History Channel tonight.....ok

Dec 7th 2007, 9:48 pm

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Re: A date which will live in infamy ....

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Well I have memories of the memorial. Being 25 I was obviously not alive at the time of Pearl Harbour.

You're the only one with any respect for my thread. <sniff>

Dec 7th 2007, 9:48 pm

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Re: A date which will live in infamy ....

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sorry honey.

I will sit and watch the Pearl Harbor Day special on the History Channel tonight.....ok

heathen

Dec 7th 2007, 10:23 pm

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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/pe...315/pearl.html

Interesting if you have a few hours to waste. Its nothing new tho.

Dec 7th 2007, 10:36 pm

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Re: A date which will live in infamy ....

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Originally Posted by Ray

1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London

Elvira was there...

Took along her "sugar daddy" Ray, no doubt.

Dec 7th 2007, 10:36 pm

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Re: A date which will live in infamy ....

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Originally Posted by Leslie66

Today is Pearl Harbor Day in the US.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of American was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

For those of you interested in the entire speech go here:

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5166/

Any thoughts from the British point of view?

For those of you that were alive then .... any memories?

My great aunt disappeared at Pearl Harbour.

Dec 7th 2007, 10:43 pm

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Re: A date which will live in infamy ....

Well, Leslie -- in reading history the British were relieved that the US would finally join the war effort in earnest. That's not to say they weren't sorry about the deaths, but I'll bet more people died in the Blitz. I'll have to check that, but...

yeah, deaths at Pearl Harbour about 3,000, blitz, 43,000.

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Dec 7th 2007, 11:18 pm

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Re: A date which will live in infamy ....

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My great aunt disappeared at Pearl Harbour.

Is that right?

Dec 7th 2007, 11:21 pm

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Re: A date which will live in infamy ....

There's speculation that the US knew the Japanese intended to attack via intelligence sources and ignored the warning, as they wanted to get involved in the war. I don't know how reliable that info. is ?