Remember....Never forget.
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Also the same date that the New York Central Railroad chose to inaugurate the new streamlined Empire State Express. Sadly, the events of the attack on Pearl Harbor overshadowed the NYC's publicity.
@ToledoEd posted:Remember....Never forget.
Nice image. Sadly they didn't even remember Veterans Day here, no flags out, doubt they have any idea it is.
Lest we forget'
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On this date in 1941 we lost 2,403 Americans to the Japanese Imperial Navy. On this date in 2020 we lost 2,885 Americans to Covid.
My Mom and Dad felt so sad in 1941. I just feel so sad today.
God Bless and Protect Our Great and Free Nation
May ALL who have Perished Rest in Eternal Peace
I remember December 7th, 1941. It was a Sunday. I was 11 years old. Lived in New Rochelle, NY.
@Hot Water posted:Also the same date that the New York Central Railroad chose to inaugurate the new streamlined Empire State Express. Sadly, the events of the attack on Pearl Harbor overshadowed the NYC's publicity.
Today I ran my Empire State Express model in it's original streamlining with the original tender in honor of Pearl Harbor Day, a small tribute but it's the thought that counts.
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My uncle Lou was living that day in Hawaii and got bombed out, but being Sunday he was still at home. Business lost to a misdirected bomb.
@Jedderbob posted:Today I ran my Empire State Express model in it's original streamlining with the original tender in honor of Pearl Harbor Day, a small tribute but it's the thought that counts.
To add to Jack’s comments, the all new train set was supposed to make front page news, that’s how impressive the all new budd car train set was.....but events of that day pushed that headliner all the way to the back of the paper.....
Pat
I miss FDR.
@geysergazer posted:On this date in 1941 we lost 2,403 Americans to the Japanese Imperial Navy. On this date in 2020 we lost 2,885 Americans to Covid.
My Mom and Dad felt so sad in 1941. I just feel so sad today.
Stand strong. Help is on the way.
I was in the Navy 70 - 74, aboard the USS Morton DD948 , homeported in Pearl Harbor. Every time we sailed by the Arizona, we'd dip the flag, and whoever was on deck would salute.
Good times in Hawaii, my buddies and I still wish we could get back there. Of course, we wouldn't be doing the same things we did then. I think some of those things are still against the law 
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RoyBoy,
Thanks for posting the links to "The Salvage of Pearl Harbor", well worth watching!!!
Best, Dave (US Navy 1967 - 1976)
Some excellent first hand accounts of the USS Arizona sinking are
"All the Gallant Men" by Donald Stratton, who passed away this year and
"Second to Last to Leave USS Arizona" by Lauren F. Bruner, who passed away in 2019.
Both men survived the bombing/sinking and were terribly burned, but still went back to fight after recovering.
Mr. Bruner's account is a very graphic account of what he saw and experienced that morning and during his recovery. His remains are likely to be the last survivor's remains to be interred on the USS Arizona.
