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Happy Dog
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Spent a fair amount of time on Ford Island the last decade

As well as across Oahu. Very sobering working in a building with bullets from Japanese planes still embedded in the walls and seeing the Arizona on the way to work. As many times as I've seen them all, it's always moving.
Posted: 12/07/2023 at 09:26 AM ET
(In response to this post by JKHokie-RunFor32)

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“December 7, 1941…a date that will live in infamy”.-Franklin D. Roosevelt**
JKHokie-RunFor32 • 12/07/23 08:27 AM ET
My grandfather and his brother were on USS Utah (BB-31) that morning
ValveHokie • 12/07/23 11:49 AM ET
My Grandfather was on the Rail that morning. But he never talked
HOKIE • 12/07/23 03:15 PM ET
My Dad was on the battleship Maryland.
BusLoadaBozos • 12/07/23 12:54 PM ET
I've got a newspaper from December 8, 1941...
Chris ColemanAdmin • 12/07/23 10:52 AM ET
December 8th, I think we've f'ed up, signed the Empire of Japan...**
banishedtothelounge • 12/07/23 09:56 AM ET
If the movie "Tora, Tora, Tora" is correct, ...
Atlee Hokie • 12/07/23 12:12 PM ET
Yea, and by some intervention- our carriers were out to sea...
banishedtothelounge • 12/07/23 12:37 PM ET
Spent a fair amount of time on Ford Island the last decade ◄
Happy Dog • 12/07/23 09:26 AM ET
Hellish work for salvage divers that were recovering bodies into the summer
HokieDan95 • 12/07/23 10:38 AM ET
And, IMO, it's slowly fading from the collective memory and Infamy.**
Atlee Hokie • 12/07/23 08:42 AM ET
Don't get me started.**
JKHokie-RunFor32 • 12/07/23 03:15 PM ET
Such is the passage of time.
hoosnowahokie • 12/07/23 09:15 AM ET