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1:54 pm
March 2, 2011
Just a quick reminder. I hope you all pause for a moment today to remember those who lost their lives on this date in the attack on Pearl Harbor. It's still a day to go down in Infamy.
On a lighter note, 26 days to retirement!!! It's snowing at my place! I'm emptying my boat today of all fishing equipment and putting on the tarps! Time to park the boat for the next 4 months or so! 🙁
Muskyless Ed another year down!!!
Hooksets are free!!!
9:23 pm
April 29, 2007
This is definitely one of the most important days in U.S. history… I’m completely humbled and grateful to those who served and serve today to protect us, thank you!
From: http://www.history.navy.mil/ph.....arlhbr.htm
“The 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.”
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“These great Japanese successes, achieved without prior diplomatic formalities, shocked and enraged the previously divided American people into a level of purposeful unity hardly seen before or since. For the next five months, until the Battle of the Coral Sea in early May, Japan's far-reaching offensives proceeded untroubled by fruitful opposition. American and Allied morale suffered accordingly. Under normal political circumstances, an accommodation might have been considered.”
“However, the memory of the "sneak attack" on Pearl Harbor fueled a determination to fight on. Once the Battle of Midway in early June 1942 had eliminated much of Japan's striking power, that same memory stoked a relentless war to reverse her conquests and remove her, and her German and Italian allies, as future threats to World peace.”
Team MTF
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