#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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It has been many years since we took this picture of the remains of the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor. It sunk at 8:06 a.m. local time, on Dec. 7th, 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. #PearlHarborDay #USSArizona

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 .

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7 December 1941
#PearlHarbor #PearlHarborDay #Remember #Veterans #Hawaii #MiM #Veteran @RegimentGG https://twitter.com/MAJ_Madden/status/1732801925714780354/photo/1

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

Today we remember the horrible attack on #PearlHarbor in 1941.

Coincidentally, today my family and I remember and honor my Grandfather who recently passed away. 6 years old when Pearl Harbor happened, he grew up during WWII and yet still was brave enough to serve in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.

R.I.P. to Pops ❤️

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💐 National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also referred to as #PearlHarborRemembranceDay or #PearlHarborDay, is observed annually in the United States on December 7, to remember and honor the 2,403 Americans who were killed in the Japanese surprise attack on #PearlHarbor in #Hawaii on December 7, 1941, which led to the #UnitedStates declaring war on #Japan the next day and thus entering #WorldWarII

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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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(Pic from Dec, 2013)

Remembrance for the Day the Cat Jumped.

And, as taught me by Dr. Ginger Wilson at Duke University when I was 13 years old: just as it’s necessary to remember the infamy of Dec. 7, 1941, so too must we remember the infamy of Executive Order 9066, which two months later authorized the forced relocation of Japanese-Americans — #Issei and #Nisei alike — from the West Coast of the United States to internment camps further inland.

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Today is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. This speech is one of the most iconic speeches in American History.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK8gYGg0dkE

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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Last year, on the 80th anniversary of the day that shall live in infamy, I wrote an essay about that day in our history and what it looks like four generations hence. What I wrote last year still holds true - as humans, we should all be "us" rather than ugly factions of "us" against "them." The sooner we can recognize that, the better everyone's lives will be.

https://agoodreedreview.com/2021/12/07/80-years-ago/

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81 years ago a Country decided they wanted to be at war with the USA. They made a big mistake. #PearlHarborDay

USS California's Four Medals of Honor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-zKIdW7BRY [15:20]

One of the medal of honor recipients was the ships main #radio operator.

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USS Arizona survivor #LouConter age 101 - Honor those killed at #PearlHarbor #WWII https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/national/uss-arizona-survivor-honor-those-killed-at-pearl-harbor/article_38b9c735-35c4-5398-9957-23a085e7ff81.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share via @Kenosha_News #Histodons #USSArizona #PearlHarborDay