Remembering Pearl Harbor

[DaemonSeid]

I don't know how anyone else feels about it but the movie made a big mockery of the day...I wasn't impressed.

if it was on par with Private Ryan....it would have had a chance....

[ThetaPrincess24]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

I don't know how anyone else feels about it but the movie made a big mockery of the day...I wasn't impressed.

if it was on par with Private Ryan....it would have had a chance....

I felt the movie played up the love triangle theme more than our sacrifices and hardships at Pearl Harbor that day. But that's just my opinion.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

I don't know how anyone else feels about it but the movie made a big mockery of the day...I wasn't impressed.

if it was on par with Private Ryan....it would have had a chance....

True, while full of new FX it was almost as "bad" as films made at the time that were more PR than fact. Just saw "Air Force" which was about a B-17 and her crew on Bataan.

Made it seem as if we won the war in 6 months.

The "Bridge over the River Kwai" was a sham. If made today, it would:
Not be shown in Japan
Would be about a 2-3 hour version of the first 30 minutes of SPR.
One would walk out sickened by what happened but full of pride in what those men went throught and did just to live.

I do wish to thank OTW for bringing this thread back to life.

I thought of my late eye doctor several times today and what he, his crew and the rest of Pearl went through.

May have been helped along as I was reading a book about the US Army and Navy nurses captured at Bataan.
Those ladies never received the honors that they truly earned.

Over the past few years I have noticed in the book stores many new books that cover some of the "small, special" things that happened that
were not covered before.

Perhaps because that generation is fast leaving us. And their immediate families are getting older.

Which means that means a great deal of first hand information will soon be gone.

As it is, the thoughts and feelings of that day, of that war are fading away.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by jon1856

True, while full of new FX it was almost as "bad" as films made at the time that were more PR than fact. Just saw "Air Force" which was about a B-17 and her crew on Bataan.

Made it seem as if we won the war in 6 months.

The "Bridge over the River Kwai" was a sham. If made today, it would:
Not be shown in Japan
Would be about a 2-3 hour version of the first 30 minutes of SPR.
One would walk out sickened by what happened but full of pride in what those men went throught and did just to live.

I do wish to thank OTW for bringing this thread back to life.

I thought of my late eye doctor several times today and what he, his crew and the rest of Pearl went through.

May have been helped along as I was reading a book about the US Army and Navy nurses captured at Bataan.
Those ladies never received the honors that they truly earned.

Over the past few years I have noticed in the book stores many new books that cover some of the "small, special" things that happened that
were not covered before.

Perhaps because that generation is fast leaving us. And their immediate families are getting older.

Which means that means a great deal of first hand information will soon be gone.

As it is, the thoughts and feelings of that day, of that war are fading away.

Jon...thats because in a few years just about any person that was actually in teh war will be gone...have yo noriced how many documentaries there are out now about WWII?

did anyone catch The War on PBS?

pretty good stuff....

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Jon...thats because in a few years just about any person that was actually in the war will be gone...have you noticed how many documentaries there are out now about WWII?

did anyone catch The War on PBS?

pretty good stuff....

I do understand that all too well; my Uncle was 2nd wave Omaha Beach.
My late eye doctor had front row seats to Battleship Row as well as the rest of naval war as Gunnery Officer on the USS Patterson.
http://hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd392txt.htm

Was part of the reasoning in my posting.

However I am glad that others see that as well.

The War was very good show.

Originally Posted by jon1856

I do wish to thank OTW for bringing this thread back to life.

Not a problem. I pass by the Arizona Memorial at least twice a day, so I am constantly reminded of the events of that infamous day.

Let me share this piece with you guys as December 7th winds down here in paradise.

Growing up here we'd always bring visiting friends and family to the Arizona Memorial. One of the individuals I remember from my childhood was Mr. Fiske, a Pearl Harbor survivor. He was a LONGTIME volunteer there, and he'd always remind us -- "NEVER FORGET." See, he knew he wasn't going to live forever, and he was afraid that people would forget.



http://www.pearlharborstories.org/node/320

Mr. Fiske died about 3 years ago, and I remember the first commemoration ceremony without him just wasn't the same. He was the voice of the Arizona Memorial.

I still remember the stories he told me when I was a kid. And rest assured that I'll be making sure that we all remember December 7th.

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by OTW

Not a problem. I pass by the Arizona Memorial at least twice a day, so I am constantly reminded of the events of that infamous day.

Let me share this piece with you guys as December 7th winds down here in paradise.

Growing up here we'd always bring visiting friends and family to the Arizona Memorial. One of the individuals I remember from my childhood was Mr. Fiske, a Pearl Harbor survivor. He was a LONGTIME volunteer there, and he'd always remind us -- "NEVER FORGET." See, he knew he wasn't going to live forever, and he was afraid that people would forget.



http://www.pearlharborstories.org/node/320

Mr. Fiske died about 3 years ago, and I remember the first commemoration ceremony without him just wasn't the same. He was the voice of the Arizona Memorial.

I still remember the stories he told me when I was a kid. And rest assured that I'll be making sure that we all remember December 7th.

I just saw his interview on TV and did not realize that he had passed.

Thank you for point this out and it is nice that you had the chance to meet him.

He did not consider himself as a hero, but He truely was no matter what!

...BUMP!

It's still a few days away, and every year the number of those who return gets smaller and smaller.



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[KJpnm]

OK ...my mother grew up in Hawaii along with her parents and my grandmother's parents. My great grandmother's brother was in Pearl Harbor along with with my great-grand father on my father's side...(Did that make sense??) my grand parents were infants. My mom infuses this historic story (about Pearl Harbor) into us every year around this time because it is so poignant in our family history. Although both men were not right in Pearl Harbor during the raid they were immediatly called to report to duty. Both were military doctors and immediately left their families to help the wounded.
The stories my famliy tells about what they had to go through and then for years after is amazing. Black outs were common and they had to paint their windows black or if they went out after curfew they had to drive with no lights on. YIKES. My parents' school became a barracks and they had to always carry gas masks in wooden boxes around their neck. Waikiki was surrounded in barb wire because they were afraid of mini subs coming to shore etc.. I consider my self very lucky to not have to live through that mess. Since then my grandpa's dad, has died, and just recently my other relative who wrote a book about the experience and went every Saturday to sign it at the Pearl Harbor Memorial has passed away. I hope people rememeber the sacrifice they made and it makes me proud to be an AMERICAN.

Thank you for bumping this thread.