December 7 , 1941

[thatsbaseball]

The day the "sleeping giant" was awakened and a day that will truly always "live in infamy". Just wanted to remember the brave men and women we lost that day.

 

[Shmuley]

+1

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Bump.

 

[RocketCityDawg]

Dec 6, 1941 the MSU Bulldogs won a game in San Francisco, got up the next morning and couldn't travel because something had just happened in Hawaii. Got stuck there for several days and missed their scheduled bowl game, which eventually resulted some 3 years later in some troll naming Bama as the National Champs for that year, despite that MSU was SEC champs and beat Bama 14-0 in Tusky Town. One of the titles Bama claims.

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

My dad arrived Dec 11, 1941 at Pearl Harbor on an army troop ship coming in from San Francisco. He was 17. They spent the next several days in search and rescue for the poor guys stationed at the naval yard and air bases. They were indeed the greatest generation.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

Had a friend who was an 18 year old sailor stationed at Kanohoe Bay on December 7, 1941. He looks up and sees a bunch of airplanes, and he thinks that it's a bunch of our planes coming in unscheduled...then he saw the meatballs on the wings and realized that they were at war.

 

[levi.sixpack]

1941

View attachment 2789My grandfather was on that team. That was a truly different generation.

 

[TBone.sixpack]

When men were Men.

 

[Bobby Ricigliano]

Hell, we had Jack Daniels on that team. No wonder they won.

 

[Digging dog]

Have an uncle who's name is on the memorial wall. Was stationed below water level when they took a torpedo. He was among 5 others in that station who's bodies were never found.

 

[anon1787432961]

Coach Dick Hitt.

Dees and Thorpe.

I love this team.