68 Years Ago Today

Dec 7,1941!
God Bless all those who gave the ultimate sacrifice and God bless all those who endured and insured our freedom.
   (I listened to the report on the radio that morning)

Yes Daddy a salute to all who died that day! And where and what were you doing while the report was being made?

I stood on that monument last June.  I imagined the horror that those brave young men went through on that day. You can still see oil in the water rising up from the bottom of Arizona's hull!

 They will always remain the greatest generation.

                   I wasn't born until two years later, may we never forget their sacrifices.

                                                                                       Fossis..........

God rest their souls.

My father was a Pearl Harbor survivor. He was in his barracks when the first attack hit. He never told me much about it. He passed away in January 2008.

My wife was born on the day we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima!  That should make up for something?  Monty 

My wife was born on the day we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima!  That should make up for something?  Monty 

What a blast,monty!

war while it might be nessisary to keep one from being enslaved or killed by "bad people" -- is never good , the freindships and love one soldier shows for his freinds -- often dying to help prevent them from dying --is the only good that is exposed by war --- the simple fact is -- no greater love can a man show his fellow human beings than to lay down his life for them.

war demands that you kill your enemy -- nothing says you got to like doing it -- one should never enjoy killing a fellow human being -- you might have to in self defense do it --or to win the war -- but  if you have a "healthy" human soul --you will not like doing it. --- many many men that have seen combat prefer NOT to talk about the "darkness" that often overtook them on the battlefeilds -- when they became killing machines --just to survive -- its not a easy ideal to deal with and something that unless you "been there / done that" you have no frame of referance for -- most folks thankfully have no grasp of how utterly horrible it was.