Anniversary

[bradygirl_12]

Tomorrow

Is the

70th

Anniversary

of

December 7, 1941


Everything changed.

Comments

[rileyc.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking of this the other day.

My dad was a 17-year-old kid out of Oklahoma, who had joined the Navy to see the world, and had just completed some kind of round-the-world cruise before his destroyer was stationed at Pearl Harbor. His ship and others had been out on maneuvers when they got word that Pearl Harbor had been bombed, and one of the most vivid memories I have of him is of him telling what it was like to come back into the harbor in the aftermath. It wasn't even the words so much as how he said them, that almost put me right there with him.

It's so strange sometimes to think of him, just a kid like that, seeing the world turn upside down and plunged right into it all.

[bradygirl_12]

It's hard to imagine coming into the harbor and seeing the smoke and flames and ruined ships. The Arizona, as we all know, completely sunk and still leaks oil to this day.

It was horrific and it's well-documented that error after error allowed the people at Pearl to remain in the dark about the impending attack. They made plenty of mistakes, too. Ever see the movie Tora, Tora, Tora!

My dad remembered seeing a screaming newspaper headline about it (he was just a kid) and my mom barely remembered anything because she was even younger, but they grew up during World War II and it influenced them forever.

[penelopes-web.livejournal.com]

Our parents/grandparents 9/11.
So much has changed...and yet not enough. :(

[bradygirl_12]

True, the nature of man rarely changes.

Pearl Harbor shook the very foundations of society and changed everything: the U.S. got into the war, eventually women took over 'man's work' while the men went to fight, and the Great Depression finally ended as the economy geared for war.