Remember Pearl Harbor

[TCO]

[Grandpa Troll]

touche'

[Dis]

that doesn't look like pearl harbor.

[Colonâ„¢]

Is that San Francisco?

[SlowwHand]

[Dis]

the greatest ship of all (because it shares my home state's name); it was the first super dreadnought after all.



and we survived pearl harbor.

While she had the distinction of being the only battleship to get underway during the attack, making the ship "the only bright spot in an otherwise dismal and depressing morning",[12] the ship was hit by one torpedo and at least six bombs while steaming away from Battleship Row, forcing her to be beached.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Dis
that doesn't look like pearl harbor.

Not sure, it may have been what we gave them as retaliation..Tokyo

[Grandpa Troll]

Re: Remember Pearl Harbor

Originally posted by TCO

This says Hiroshima, so it was a bit down the line in response to Pearl Harbor bombing

[Dis]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll

Not sure, it may have been what we gave them as retaliation..Tokyo

I was being sarcastic

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Dis


I was being sarcastic

and I was trying to educate

[Unimatrix11]

Remembering Pearl Harbor - okay... fine... i wont object.

Remembering Hiroshima - sure... ought to be...

Posting a pic of Hiroshima (my first guess was Nagasaki btw) while saying ´Remember Pearl Harbor´ - absolutely tasteless.

[Tattila the Hun]

Yay for pre-emptive strikes without declaration of war? Sound tactic, I should think. Though, the scale was much too thin to really cripple the adversary, so it wasn't that well planned... I quess they were desperate.

But really, isn't that the modus operandi of the US today? Massive surprise attacks to cripple their enemies? And nothing wrong with that, mind.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Unimatrix11
Remembering Pearl Harbor - okay... fine... i wont object.

Remembering Hiroshima - sure... ought to be...

Posting a pic of Hiroshima (my first guess was Nagasaki btw) while saying ´Remember Pearl Harbor´ - absolutely tasteless.

Really?

Just how tasteless?

Maybe you could contact the Japanese Government, and aske them if they could do it all again, would they snaekmattack on a Sunday morning and kill all those military personnel?

I will say this, Tokyo, Nagasaki and Hiroshima sent them a message, You fricked with the wrong Hombre', Amigo!!

The innocent persons in those cities, I am sorry about but war sucks and thats the awful truth about the matter.

As for tasteless, it is history and that cannot be changed.

I personally have nothing against either Japanese or German persons, heck, I am a descendant of Deutche lineage.

Be well but cannot agree that the picture was tasteless, it was revisiting what we did when we got back on our feet

Gramps

[Unimatrix11]

You know, when you talk about remembering victims of pretty much anything, you dont erect monuments with pictures of the retailiation on it. Cause thats tasteless.

I wonder, what the US would deserve by now btw, if a country who did (a pretty obvious - PH was much less of a surprise than publicy considered) first strike causing some 3.000 dead ´deserves´ to get nuclear bombed twice for it, in comparisson.

Thats like nighbors kitty bites my arm and i smash it against the wall and make a picture of the blood stain it leaves behind. Some days later i come around the neighbors house and leave a card with the picturs and a text saying ´remember: kitty´s bite´.... not tasteless ?!

[Blaupanzer]

Horrifyingly enough, that photo does not look a lot different than some parts of the Bronx, and the process for that took more than a few seconds.

As to Pearl Harbor day, the day was originally marked a a remembrance of being stabbed in the back thus inspiring workers and soldiers alike to win WW II. Now, the day is now regarded as a day to remind us of the need for vigilance, not as a celebration of victory or such.

So while one could argue that Pearl Harbor initiated a series of events leading to nuclear strikes on civilian targets, that whole line of reasoning would be irrelevant when related to why Americans mark the day. We do not celebrate or condemn betrayal or duplicity of any participant on this day, but remember when we were completely unprepared. If the US carriers had been in harbor, this day might have been a great success for Japan rather than a provocative and ultimately pointless gesture. (We didn't need the battleships anyway, and the men would be replaced.)