OT: Prayers for families of those killed at Pearl Harbor 12-07-1941

[OHIO COLONEL]

Any of you grandsons, granddaughters, great-grandsons and great-granddaughters of those KIA at Pearl.
Just watched The Pacific and it gets me very emotional of what some went thru in the Pacific and in Europe in WWII. My dad was just a young farm boy in Southern Kentucky on that day...and would find himself a few years later fighting in Europe under Gen. Patton. I think of him often and what he endured. Later in life, he never talked about as if it never happened, but I know it haunted him to the day he died.

 

[CatEye2010]

I agree. My dad was at Pearl as a young sailor (on the Nevada-he lost his cousin there). Dad wasn't injured much, but the emotional scars he had are what we now know as PTSD. Treated it with bottle therapy.

That was the Greatest Generation, for sure. My wife's dad was shot down over Romania and held as a POW for months 'til the Russians routed the Germans and he escaped. Came home and started a successful business that's still going.

 

[UKWildcats#8]

Amen to that, and thanks to your relatives for their service during that war. Pearl Harbor was just so bizarre...still not sure how the Japanese took us by such surprise. The ineptness of PH's military leadership and in Washington is appalling to me, even after reading several books on the topic. We were also fortunate the Aircraft Carriers were not present or things really could have been hairy for longer than they were in the Pacific and the war overall.

 

[-LEK-]

I would like every one to say prayers for everyone at the Battle of Megiddo. Without Thutmose's leadership and the service men, we wouldn't be here today.

 

[buckethead1978]

I pray for Charles Martel every night or else we would all be praying five times a day.

 

[vhcat70]

I pray for Charles Martel every night or else we would all be praying five times a day.

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