12/7/41 Pearl Harbor Day

I fully agree with svm99. We are losing our WWII vets at the rate of 1000 per day. The greatest generation for sure.
 
I would like to state a memorial to my namesake Keith Merriman, artillery fire controlman, USS Pensacola which had just left Peral December 7, but was killed in the first large navel battle after. Keith oh
 
My father was a Major in the U.S Army December 7th 1941, we were stationed in Virginia at the time. I was 5 years old, and could not understand all the commotion in our household that day. After packing we moved to Illnois, Kansas, Washington, California and Texas all in under 4 years when my father went to Europe.

As I remember I never stayed in one school over 6 months till 1945.
Dad came home to Michigan in the summer of 1946 to stay.

My thoughts go out to all those who did not return!
Semper Fi, Mark
 
Never forget indeed! God Bless America!

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Ken
 
Never forget. I lived in Hawaii for 4 years and visited many of the shrines and damaged areas. Terrible day for America and the world. The Kola Kolie Pass is so beautiful. I worked in HQ PACAF where the outside of the building still had bullet damage. I have climbed diamond head tunnels and visited the Arizona Memorial and cried in the great cemetary in a crater.

Did you notice that the ABC National news put Pearl Harbor day as their last item? Awful. NBC did not start out with any remembrance, so I turned them off.
 
God bless all those who served. My father served in the Army and was in Italy and North Africa. The National media could care less about what happened in the war. They'll never get the message that those who served their country during WW II allowed them to continue to have freedom of the press. Very sad.
 
Clem, I too lived in Hawaii from '63 thru '66. Dad got transfered there and worked for FRFE in Kunia Tunnel. Right across the street from our house on Wheeler Field was the single men's dorm and the main runways. It was amazing to me, a young lad of 9, to be able to ride my bike up the the dorm and stick my fingers in the bullet holes left in the building! I too, got to go into Diamondhead and tour the concrete bunkers. Punch Bowl National Cemetary and the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial put a lump in my throat in 1963 and still does today.

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This shot also puts a lump in my throat. This was taken in 1963, and 49 years later, still has oil coming to the surface.
 
Stationed in Pearl for two years at Bravo piers. Saw the Memorial every morning when we were in port. Thank you shipmates - you gave it all.
 
Ken's 34 PU,
I worked at PACAF Command Center. We went to the ememgerncy center in Kunia Tunnel once a week to test the special equipment there. (Command Post under a pineapple field.) I believe it is closed now. Every day we saw rememberances of Dec 7. I made a flight from Wheeler Field one evening in a Army Beaver. A bunch of us wanted to land at every little air strip on the north shore. All were closed but we did it anyway.
Clem
 
I remember the day very well, I was 7 yrs old setting with my Great Grandfather listening to the radio when the announcment was braodcast & my Mother was preparing Sunday dinner. And as Clem said there wasn't hardley any mention of it on the news. It seems that most of my 78 years we have been at war although our leaders like to call them police actions or some other politically correct name. I know this is a flathead site but many of the flathead lovers have a good recollection of these years & probably feel as sad as I do.
Gary.
 
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