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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Dec 7 06:48:22 2021 Eighty years ago today, the gallant sailors, soldiers, and Marines of the United States Pacific Fleet, anchored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, were peacefully going about their Sunday morning routines. Out of a warm, sunny sky, hundreds of fighter, dive-bomber, and torpedo planes from a Japanese strike force descended upon the ships, intent on their mission of decisively knocking the US Navy out of the Pacific Ocean. Their missiles struck home, entombing thousands of brave young men within the hulls of their vessels, smashing scores of aircraft on the ground, and splintering the piers from which the Fleet would have sailed to fight.The United States was thus plunged into the most catastrophic military conflict in human history. Thuis had the effect of shattering the complacency of people on the home front who, just the day before, were mostly content to stay out of the war, despite the existential threat the Axis clearly posed. All that changed utterly in a couple of hours on that soft, deadly, holiday-season morning. Please pause a moment to remember those valiant seamen, who served and died on the first day of our engagement in a war that would see unspeakable numbers of their comrades follow them into Valhalla. Requiescat In Pacem. |
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