Pearl Harbor day!

[SocialDemocrat61]

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Recommend this documentary about FDR’s actions in the 24 hours after the attack. It is a master class in leadership.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Where's the happy part? NT

[Omnipresent]

29. I guess we have to be happy or grateful it hasn't happened again.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Will Trump pardon the aggressors? /nt

[OC375]

3. ???

Thanks for the reminder, but it’s NOT a happy day by any reasonable measure.

[SocialDemocrat61]

8. Churchill was happy

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[bif]

11. Who's "Chuchill"?

[SocialDemocrat61]

13. Thanks

[WarGamer]

42. A friend of Staline?

[COL Mustard]

26. That's like wishing me a Happy 9/11.

Almost 25 years later, I still have the pictures of the people I knew who died at the Pentagon. Nothing happy about it.

[electric_blue68]

36. So sorry you knew people who perished...

While our then NYS office moved out of there to Brooklyn years before 2001 - I worked in the NE corner office on the 73rd flr in South Tower 2 for a year '80 -'81.

The second plane plane emerged about 2 floors above ftom where we would have been w/o the move.
It was a hideous day for almost everyone.

[COL Mustard]

39. Amen to that!

It started out as such a beautiful day but turned horrific quickly.

So glad you weren’t at the site!

[electric_blue68]

41. TY.

[Bengus81]

4. Only 45K WWII vets alive as of Sept out of 16.4M who served.

Showing only 12 Pearl Harbor survivors left alive.

[3catwoman3]

5. Happy?

[CurtEastPoint]

6. Please consider revising your title. It is NOT a 'happy' day by any means.

[snowybirdie]

7. In Memory of the Pearl Harbor attack

We will always commemorate this day.

[ZDU]

9. SocialDemocrat are you okay?

Have you visited the USS Arizona memorial? U.S. Navy vet. here. I've been to the memorial. Happy is a poor choice of words to describe the anniversary of the attack upon Pearl Harbor and U.S. Forces.

[SocialDemocrat61]

14. I'm fine

Have a happy Pearl Harbor day!

[ZDU]

15. Obnoxious much?

Insensitive.

[SocialDemocrat61]

16. Have a great day!

[paleotn]

18. Seriously. Consider revising your OP

It is offensive to those of us who served and those who know fully what happened that day. It wasn't happy. And does a disservice to those who died there.

[paleotn]

25. Blocked. I don't converse or read the scribblings of those who are grossly insensitive to the memory....

.... of those who died so that you can be grossly insensitive with impunity. In my mind, you're no better than Trump.

[whathehell]

30. Judgemental much?

[Greg_In_SF]

31. Disgusting

n/t

[COL Mustard]

27. I've been there.

It's a very moving scene. USS Arizona is still weeping oil.

[rickford66]

10. Here's a link if it won't play on your browser

[bif]

12. Your headline sounds like something the Orange Rapist would say

Just sayin'.

[intheflow]

23. Or Hegseth. Sounds like bloodlust. n/t

[paleotn]

17. I get your point, but....

there isn't one damn thing "happy" about Pearl Harbor. Seriously, consider revising. No offense, but it sounds Trumpish.

That's from a Navy vet who's saluted the Arizona Memorial a few times on passage into and out of Pearl.

[ZDU]

20. Shipmate, thank you!

[MineralMan]

19. I'd get rid of the "Happy" in your post title.

Inappropriate for the day. Yes I would.

[Jacson6]

24. I wouldn't call PH a happy day.

Just sayin...

[Ocelot II]

28. What's happy about it?

It's like wishing somebody a happy Good Friday.

[DFW]

32. Many years ago, one of the greatest entertainers America ever produced was planning to have lunch with little old me

When we set the date, he emailed back: "a date that will live in infamy."

I think the phrase will be known by Americans with an IQ in three digits for centuries to come, even long after people remembering the original event that brought it about.

[Srkdqltr]

33. Well , according to my mother, it was a nice happy day until they came home from my baptism and they hear about the

found out about the attack. After that they all were saddened and confused as to what it meant in their lives. Everyone went home early . for some life was never the same.
Mother was upset because the party was a bust but she knew .
Her brother and several cousins went off to war.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. This day in History

Visting the Arizona Memorial is a very moving experience.

[electric_blue68]

35. You may have a good documentary link, but your OP tittle is insensitive.

[True Dough]

37. All of these valid critiques in this thread

and yet the OP won't back down. For shame!

[3catwoman3]

38. Interesting, isn't it?

I think this is one of the most unanimous threads I've ever seen on DU.

[MustLoveBeagles]

40. Thanks for the link

Very informative. However your thread title leaves something to be desired. I recommend changing it.

[LudwigPastorius]

43. What's next?

Happy Battle of the Somme Day?

Happy Murrah Federal Building Bombing Day?

Happy Bhopal Chemical Leak Day?

Happy Coconut Grove Fire Day?

Happy Tenerife Airport Crash Day?