A date which shall live in infamy

[whatwouldcooleydo?]

December 7, 1941, 74 years have passed. Would be hard to exaggerate just what a significant moment that was in 20th century history.

[Tequila Cowboy]

Monumental. That day changed the course of history.

[Swamp]

My Uncle Memphis fought in Europe. One day he stepped around a corner only to be face to face with a German. They fought hand to hand till my Uncle pushed his
knife through the Germans chest. My Uncle said the German had the deepest blue eyes he had ever seen. Uncle Memphis never hated the Germans. Which is good
since Marina is half German.
My Uncle Randolph's landing craft was sunk a mile off Iwo Jima. Everybody but him drowned. He hated the Japanese and would not attend my sisters first wedding.
Her first husband's mother was Japanese/Hawaiian. Her family's house was on a hill overlooking Pearl Harbor. They watched the whole thing go down from their front
porch.

[chickenwingpuke]

My Uncle Memphis fought in Europe. One day he stepped around a corner only to be face to face with a German. They fought hand to hand till my Uncle pushed his
knife through the Germans chest. My Uncle said the German had the deepest blue eyes he had ever seen. Uncle Memphis never hated the Germans. Which is good
since Marina is half German.
My Uncle Randolph's landing craft was sunk a mile off Iwo Jima. Everybody but him drowned. He hated the Japanese and would not attend my sisters first wedding.
Her first husband's mother was Japanese/Hawaiian. Her family's house was on a hill overlooking Pearl Harbor. They watched the whole thing go down from their front
porch.

Damn, Swamp. That's some heavy shit right there. I salute your uncles.

Here is an interesting video regarding the sinking of the USS West Virginia, from a Japanese bomber pilot's perspective.

[Swamp]

They were both good men.
That video was very interesting. Just before we moved down here from NAS Memphis 43 years ago, my dad brought home a movie projector after the movers had taken every thing out of the house. We watched a lot of war footage that has just become available in the past 25 years. But that was all from the American point of view.