December 07, 2017, 12:27 AM
12131December 7th
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"we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches
Making the best of what ever comes our way
Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition
Plowing straight ahead come what may
And theres a cowboy in the jungle"
Jimmy Buffet
December 07, 2017, 01:26 AM
rpm2010I'll drive past Pearl Harbor on my way into work and remember this post, and thoughts of the SF members.
December 07, 2017, 07:24 AM
rduckworNever forget. Thanks,
RMD
TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…”
Remember: After the first one, the rest are free.
December 07, 2017, 07:28 AM
RHINOWSOIf you have the means in your lifetime, visit Pearl Harbor and the Arizona at least once. Sobering.
December 07, 2017, 07:57 AM
2BobTanner
USS Arizona and USS Missouri; the bookends of American involvement in WW2.
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"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken
December 07, 2017, 08:02 AM
chellim1quote:
Originally posted by rpm2010:
I'll drive past Pearl Harbor on my way into work and remember this post, and thoughts of the SF members.
Thank you. Never forget!
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor December 07, 2017, 08:17 AM
RichardCI just put out my flag at work.
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December 07, 2017, 08:18 AM
LeemurIt always gives me a weird feeling in the pit of my stomach each anniversary. The event that turned my grandfather from a simple smiling mechanic into a Marine sent to tropical hell. Returned home sick, half blown up and seriously scrambled in the head for years until he quit drinking, found God and became the smiling mechanic again.
December 07, 2017, 08:28 AM
slyguyI went to Hawaii in 1980 and got so sick I couldn't go on the tour to Pearl Harbor.
Some day I hope to take my kids.
Thank you ~
December 07, 2017, 08:44 AM
OzarkwoodsNever forget, my FIL was a Pearl Harbor survivor. He was on the USS Neosho a fully loaded tanker that came into Harbor the night before. The captain and crew moved the Neosho during the attack to the back side of Ford Island. RIP TR
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
December 07, 2017, 08:44 AM
flashguyI've been to the Memorial twice--both times it has been and emotional experience. I can barely recall the day of the attack (I was 2 weeks shy of 4 years old).
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth December 07, 2017, 09:05 AM
ds1962Amen. We shall never forget.
GOD/Israel, family, 2nd amendment rights: in that order.
Tennessee -ELOHIM IS MY GOD!
December 07, 2017, 09:12 AM
Warhorse"This date lives in infamy".
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NRA Life Member, Annual Member GOA, MGO Annual Member
December 07, 2017, 09:14 AM
rscalzoI was fortunate to see the memorial during a trip with my wife's company back in the late 80's. Odd thing it was Mitsubishi electronics. what I did notice is that those from the company acted as if they were at a solemn service and acted that way. the others on the trip which included the general public walked around like it was a ride at disney World.
I still have a flag that was flown over the memorial.
My father returned a few years before his death. He was enroute to the island and arrived a few days after the attack. From there is was five years across the Pacific.
December 07, 2017, 09:37 AM
Expert308I visited the Arizona once 23 years ago when I flew out there for my sister's wedding. That was long before she was joined by the Missouri. It was a very emotional experience. I want to go back again and see both of them.
December 07, 2017, 09:43 AM
cherokee2uThis and 9-11 are two dates that I will always remember
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A shepherd must tend his flock....and at times fight off the wolves
December 07, 2017, 10:06 AM
Blue DogThanks for sharing. Always remember.
December 07, 2017, 10:18 AM
reflex/deflex 64I spent an hour one Sunday morning with a man who was there. Was quite an experience for me, to hear him explain what he experienced of the times leading up to and the years after that day.
He was in town visiting his daughter, I’ve not seen him again. I could have spent hours, should have spent hours listening to him.
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December 07, 2017, 11:02 AM
tacfoleyMeanwhile, Radioman 3rd Class Bean come home to rest....
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...rs-article-1.3681876tac