#pearlharborday — Public Fediverse posts

Watching one of our favorite films for December, the tragic Tora!Tora!Tora! Directors Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, and Kinji Fukasaku. It’s the Japanese version with 2 addional scenes and director commentary, watching it with subtitles. Actors, production values, cinematography are brilliant. When it first came out I watched it for the battleship destruction, but have come to appreciate its political tragedy narrative.
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Remembering #PearlHarborDay 🇺🇸 today.

Listen to the historic speech President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave to the joint session of Congress on December 8, 1941, requesting an official declaration of war.

#USHistory #history

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htm

As we mark #PearlHarborDay, it’s worth remembering those whose suffering faded from view: Japanese Americans in Hawaii, many of whom were detained, displaced or denied full redress after the outbreak of war.

Their incarceration remains one of WWII’s most overlooked injustices. https://theconversation.com/the-overlooked-story-of-the-incarceration-of-japanese-americans-from-hawaii-during-world-war-ii-188268 #Histodons @histodons

In remembrance of December 7, 1941 — 2,403 killed, 1,178 wounded, a nation forever reshaped. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/pearl-harbor-remembrance-day-december-7-eaw64n8j?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #PearlHarborDay #RememberingDecember7 #NeverForget #WWIIHistory

Somehow thinking about Tulsi Gabbard facing a confirmation hearing made me think of a neighbor I had met in San Jose in the late 1990s who showed me enlarged prints of pictures he had taken while he was in the Navy and in Hawaii on December 7, 1941 while picnicking up a hill with his girlfriend and the Japanese warplanes came in.

Now, it's been at least 25 years since I saw those pictures that he had taken at least 55 years earlier.

That chance encounter makes me feel strangely connected to the past and particularly #PearlHarborDay .

Today I watched #TheWindRises , a beautiful animated biography of a Japanese aeronautical engineer in the years before #WWII . It was just a coincidence that it happened to be #PearlHarborDay .

It was a touching story with an amazing cast for the English-language version.

Interestingly, #EmilyBlunt plays the wife in The Wind Rises and in #Oppenheimer , providing both bookends for the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Rises

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In other news, today is #PearlHarborDay and I recently learned the first #ArdmoreOK casualty from WWII was a local sailor who went down on the USS #Oklahoma in 1941.

His remains stayed with those of his shipmates in the Honolulu Memorial Cemetery "Punchbowl" and weren't identified until 2021.

Last year, his body returned to the Sooner State where his became the first burial at the veterans' cemetery named in his honor.

https://www.alexandergrayfh.com/obituaries/Billy-Turner?obId=24903402

#PearlHarborDay: In the early morning of Dec. 7, 1941, the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was attacked by the Japanese. Here are some facts about the event:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2018/12/december-7-pearl-harbor.html

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Today is actually Pearl Harbor Day, Sean. It only lives in infamy if we remember and share the story of the Allied invasion of Normandy.
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