Pearl Harbor's 80th anniversary: Veterans
share why America must 'unite' today
Fox News,
by
Maureen Mackey
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/7/2021 8:00:56 AM
As the nation marks the 80th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack against America by Japan on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, veterans around the country shared their thoughts and insights with Fox News Digital, noting the significance of the event all these decades later. "When we're united as a country, we cannot be defeated," one New York-based veteran, a father of four, told Fox News Digital. "That's my takeaway. What happened after Pearl Harbor shows that when we stand together, we cannot be beat."
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/7/2021 8:26:43 AM (No. 999411)
A note to the NY veteran - yes, sir, I agree with you. But ask any millennial or gen y'er what is Pearl Harbor Day and many will have no clue. And many of them have no interest in uniting with us old farts on anything.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GO3 12/7/2021 8:41:32 AM (No. 999425)
Amen to #1.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
aripeny 12/7/2021 8:44:58 AM (No. 999430)
Tough to unite under "cut & run" leadership. Brandon must go.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NYbob 12/7/2021 8:46:52 AM (No. 999432)
Our national media and more importantly our educational system has not only FAILED to teach the history of and lessons of Pearl Harbor, but they actually imply that the USA deserved the attack. Shame on them and shame on us for allowing an intellectual cancer to rot our country.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Laotzu 12/7/2021 8:48:10 AM (No. 999435)
In point of fact, we would have been far better off as a nation if a few more good citizens had told FDR to get bent. Unity is an amoral value. Unity worshippers are one rung down the woke scale from diversity worshippers.
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A great deal of difference between the young men then and now. My brother joined the navy after Pearl Harbor at the age of 17. He drove the Higgens boat to Iwo Jima and other island, (I am old and can't remember), and saw the slaughter of young American men. He came home (thanks to our Savior), and never talked about it until he was in his 70's, at my request. They were told that the next fight would be in Japan and very few would come back. Thank you President Truman for your wisdom and courage.. A great president, indeed!
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Our current enemy is our own government bureaucracy.
What will it take for the citizens to engage this time?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/7/2021 9:12:33 AM (No. 999465)
I do not want or intend to unite with communists.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 12/7/2021 9:22:54 AM (No. 999479)
Old Glory flies from our front porch today. A heartfelt Thank You to these brave and true Americans.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
red1066 12/7/2021 9:42:52 AM (No. 999509)
It just wasn't your brother #6. Having grown up with WWII veterans, I don't recall any of them talking about their experiences during the war. The only story I ever heard from my father was a story of hitching a ride to go see the town of Monte Carlo. It wasn't until after his death that I learned where he had been, and that he had received a medal for action in the Po Valley in Italy. It was like this everywhere I went. My little league managers were vets. The men at church were all vets. Every uncle and family friend were veterans. I never heard them say anything about WWII, except that they hoped that I would never experience anything like it. They're all gone now, but I can still see their faces and hear their voices.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Italiano 12/7/2021 10:40:05 AM (No. 999609)
Today it is regarded as a mostly peaceful Japanese diplomatic fact-finding mission.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 12/7/2021 11:08:22 AM (No. 999654)
Hmm. America must unite. I will support anyone who supports the laws and the Constitution, but today, most of the bureaucrats and essentially all of the Dem party are more about personal power, grubbing for money and destroying anyone who dares try to actually follow the Constitution than about what the country was founded on.
I can't unite with people who are working night and day to destroy the country. I'll oppose them when I can, and if they keep going to violence, eventually they will be met with the same that they put out.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/7/2021 11:49:19 AM (No. 999706)
With the exceptional periods of World Wars (both of which many Americans opposed entry by the US) and the Cold War, Americans were divided. We even fought a civil war. Our division today is nothing historically deviant. Riots and bomb throwing nothing new, either. Political violence is a common theme, as are machine politics, graft, and whatever else you choose.
It seems the US needs two things for "unity" - 1) An existential foe. After the Soviets there were none. It was the end of history, remember? Liberal Western democracy had triumphed. The Russians are a regional power. For awhile we filled in with Iranians, Iraqis, Taliban Libyans, NorKors and other assorted bad guys. Fought two wars. Occupied two countries for two decades to plant and grow "democracy". We failed. So now we're down to Russia (Ukraine) and China (Taiwan). The propaganda mills will start up when needed, just like Hearst's NY Journal did in 1898. ("You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.")
2) National service was the common denominator. The draft was more than military service. It was a national homogenizer that included all races to provide a common ground in civics. That ended with the volunteer military, and that was another Leftist idea to "end wars". Now we have this military establishment that includes mothers, fathers, family members...and every planeload of caskets that arrives at Dover is dutifully documented with grieving widows and crying children on TV news. (Think that was common in the WW2, Korea or Vietnam days?) There is no commonality in the US social system. The glue of Communism as the treat is dissolved. Communism is cool again. (Ask LeBron.) Capitalism is bad. (Ask AOC.)
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 12/7/2021 12:03:49 PM (No. 999724)
At one time I thought it would make a difference to defend this nation but today I'll choose to defend only my family not the liberal neighbors surrounding me. I was spit upon for my service when I returned home in 1969. Unite with that crowd? Not on a bet I will never do it for half the communist living here when at 19 I was engaged in physical war with them. It won't happen again for me, ever.
Fight and unite with millennials who probably think the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor or couldn't find Hawaii on a globe sitting on a second-grade teacher's desk. I wish I could agree with a warrior from the greatest generation. I'll stand to defend him or others like him but the patriotic human greatness of this nation is fading fast. Look what generals did in the Afghanistan 'run away' that's sickening.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 12/7/2021 12:11:03 PM (No. 999735)
The stirring song "Let's Remember Pearl Harbor" came out of the dastardly Japanese attack in 1941, so when I imagined what the song would be if history repeated itself, I wrote "Let's Surrender Pearl Harbor" with the following lyrics:
INTRO:
Living free how very bourgeoisie
There's nothing in this world worth dying for
We’ll recall with Vietnam and all
That war is not the answer anymore
VERSE 1:
Let’s surrender Pearl Harbor
And not go to meet the foe
Let’s surrender Pearl Harbor
And forget the Alamo
Just remember it’s stupid
If you die for liberty
Let’s surrender Pearl Harbor
And to hell with history
VERSE 2:
Let’s surrender Pearl Harbor
Just say 'hell no we won't go’
Let’s surrender Pearl Harbor
And preserve the status quo
If we won’t die for freedom
Then we’ll live down on our knees
Let’s surrender Pearl Harbor
And we’ll all learn Japanese
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
broken01 12/7/2021 2:25:59 PM (No. 999897)
Pearl Harbor was my first duty station and for a kid born and raised in the hills of WVA it was on of the highlights of my life. I remember going to the Arizona Memorial and talking to a WWII veteran who was on the actual USS Arizona when she was hit and went down. He didn't go into detail but we spoke for a good half hour. Guys like that deserve our respect. He's since been interned in the Arizona as is the right of all who served on her prior to 12/7/1941. I agreed then and I agree now that we must unite as a nation because our main enemy is gaining ground while we are not. Also with our current political climate I feel uniting is nothing but a pipe dream at this point.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 12/8/2021 4:50:04 AM (No. 1000345)
Unity? America is several different countries now. Democrat cities are their own countries and should be independent from Free America. Washington DC is alien to everywhere else on the continent. America needs a divorce.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
mifla 12/8/2021 5:01:34 AM (No. 1000351)
Followed by Boomers, Millenials, Gen X....I guess they were the greatest generation.
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