The American Spectator

Al Adab| 12.7.10 @ 12:10PM

Thank you for taking time to post a remembrance.

My sister-in-law's father was aboard the USS Arizona that morning. He had just finished his watch and returned to his bunk area with his watch mate. "It's Sunday" he mentioned, "I think I'll catch the launch and head to church." His bunk mate declined but another sailor joined him. As they approached the church doors the planes arrived overhead. He never saw the watch mate again. He rarely if ever missed church after that even as he suffered the throes of Alzhiemers. . A few years ago several remaining Arizona survivors attended his funeral.

Yes. Let us all remember.

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.7.10 @ 12:51PM

Al Adab,
I will forever after combine Pearl Harbour and 9-11 in my mind.
In both cases we were attacked without warning from the air.

TWO days of infamy.

I look at the different responses from the American people and weep.

I did weep............. with pride/sorrow when Dubyah spoke on the ruins with the megaphone.

...Pride that so many rushed TOWARD the trade center to help...........pride that our President spoke for me......and sustained that promise for eight long years....come hell 0r high water.

My cousin in Afghanistan in the Army shortly thereafter witnessed Toby Keith singing and wrote home about it. You know the one about "a boot in your ass".
When the song was finally "released" I bought it, and am so happy that Toby released it to youtube.
It is in my favorites file.

We are at war... Not with terrorism per se, but with Sharia adherents. We are at war with kimakazees again. (screw the spelling)....and so far we haven't fully mobilized.

We should do so.

Ken (Old Texican)| 12.7.10 @ 1:25PM

Here's Toby Keith, Folks, courtesy of the red white and blue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNrdmjcNTc

Al Adab| 12.7.10 @ 2:48PM

Ken,
As you point out, we should have mobilized. That was the great mistake of W. Where were the war bond sales? Where is the Million man Army and the 600 ship Navy and the 21 wing Air Force? It was a missed opportunity and now, through "nation building" we suffer for it.

The Left refuses to understand we are at war. That, as Churchill said, should be our policy and victory our goal.

ggoblue| 12.7.10 @ 1:21PM

i'm so glad i took my children to the arizona memorial...

bfwebster| 12.7.10 @ 1:27PM

Thanks for posting that. My late father, John Webster, was aboard the USS San Francisco there in Pearl that day. He was all of 17 years old, having enlisted in the Navy just 6 months earlier to "see the world". He said that's when he began to have second thoughts about his decision, but he stayed in for 29 years, finishing with two tours in Vietnam. ..bruce..

John| 12.8.10 @ 3:26PM

At least vets of WWII had the option of winning or losing a war. Today our troops have no such option as politicians will not allow them to finish the job. Our troops are sent off to war today only to pacify the politician's egos and then to give them the diplomatic options to end each altercation. The troops no longer have the honor of coming home with victory as they did during WW II.

Bill| 12.11.10 @ 6:38PM

John, it's not only the politician's who will not allow the troops to finish the job, the far left cry babies are just as guilty. The soccer mom's and dad's who insist that every player must 'feel' good and that it is just a game and winning has no merit, the American public that do not know who their congress person is, who do not know who Dingy Harry and madam Pelosi are, many who do not know who the vice-president of the United States is; they are just as big a part of the problem as are the yellow belly politicians.