Where were you 65 years ago today?

morgansforever

How about posting some 1941 coinage, and more importantly, remember those who lost their lives on that horrific Sunday morning.

draco2

Greetings,
I was a gleem in my fathers eye!,
Bruce

he also joined the navy to help the war effort after the bombing pearl harbor.

50cents

morgansforever

Nice coins 50 cents, thanks for the contribution. God bless those who gave some, and those who gave all.

morgansforever

It brings a tear to my eye to think those pilots didn't have a chance to get off the ground.

morgansforever

<<he also joined the navy to help the war effort after the bombing pearl harbor.>>


True to his country, very honorable

Barndog

my parents weren't even born

Michigan

Not yet born.

My dad served in the war along with four of his five brothers (one was underage). A couple were involved in combat and a ship nearly
sunk in a storm but all five came back alive.

Is "Tora Tora Tora" being shown on TV today? Probably some channel will have it, a very interesting movie.

StrikeOutXXX

<< <i>I was a gleem in my fathers eye!, >>



My parents weren't even gleems in my grandparents eyes yet. Sad day in history though.

morgansforever

<<Not yet born.>>


Me to, not until 1970. My grandmother was on the USS Tranquility (floating hospital) and has told many true accounts.

morgansforever

Is "Tora Tora Tora" being shown on TV today? Probably some channel will have it, a very interesting movie.


Probably on AMC, or the History channel, great movie

morgansforever

Should there be a coin commemorating this event, I think so.

Jcarney

I wonder if this thread will be poofed like Wes' was the day Kennedy was shot?

morgansforever

<<I wonder if this thread will be poofed like Wes' was the day Kennedy was shot? >>

I hope not, tried to keep it coin related.

LanLord

Well, I wasn't around yet, but Dec 7, 1941 is what convinced my father to join the Marines (at age 17 - I think my grandmother told me he lied about his age).

He spent the next 20 years there and had quite an honored career (not quite an Audie Murphy) but lots of medals and stripes.

holeinone1972

I was not even a gleam, or an itch, but I did propose to my wife 10 years ago today.

Rob

airplanenut

My dad was born 15 years after the fact... a good friend 45 years after the fact... and my cousin something like 50 years after the fact

I wasn't even close

Fairlaneman

Just a gleem also.

Dad was in the service at this time but was doomed to serve only in the USA because of a eyesight problem. 39 years ago at just about this time in the morning I was just about ready to walk into the Portland, OR induction center to begin a journey into another USA conflict had happened across the pacific ocean.

Now a coin.....



Ken

morgansforever

Have to head to work, keep up the posts. God Bless America,

morgans

lasvegasteddy

makes me think of the ending of saving private private in that i hope we all respect and live a life those who died for us "would be proud of"...my belated father was a korean war naval vet and was for the most part why i too joined the navy myself and so note...the reason why our family refuses mitsubishi products as is it's the same outfit that made those "zero's" and its soo sad to see their products now accepted over here and i'm sure some are in agreement with me on that note

ricko

Former Navy, always a patriot - and I wish we fought wars now like we did then - to win!!!! There is no such thing as a civilized war. Time to realize that everything is at stake. I would love to see more 'Walker' pictures.. Thanks, Cheers, RickO

Michigan

<< <i>makes me think of the ending of saving private private in that i hope we all respect and live a life those who died for us "would be proud of"...my belated father was a korean war naval vet and was for the most part why i too joined the navy myself and so note...the reason why our family refuses mitsubishi products as is it's the same outfit that made those "zero's" and its soo sad to see their products now accepted over here and i'm sure some are in agreement with me on that note >>




War is an ugly thing but I don't believe in holding grudges over it, best to let bygones be bygones is the way I see it.

ziggy29

oops, double post

ziggy29

<< <i>War is an ugly thing but I don't believe in holding grudges over it, best to let bygones be bygones is the way I see it. >>

I agree. Today's young Japanese are not what their grandparents and great-grandparents were at the time of the war. Even then it was more the imperial government than the people of Japan which was most worthy of contempt.

Jcarney

<< <i><<I wonder if this thread will be poofed like Wes' was the day Kennedy was shot? >>

I hope not, tried to keep it coin related. >>



I hope not too, but Wes' was coin related also and the whiney forum cops got it pulled anyway.

Flyfishguy

I wasn't around, but my 22 year old father was a sargent in the Army Air Corp walking guard duty at Hickman Field. He remembers thinking "What are all these idiots doing in the air at this time on a Sunday morning". He also said that he would have fired his rifle at them, but the guards had been issued no ammunition...

garsmith

Waiting for 21 more years to pass so I could be born!

OKbustchaser

I wasn't a gleam, yet, but my older sister supposedly happened on the afternoon of Monday, the 8th, after Dad joined the Navy and was to leave immediately.

shuckins

KoinDawg

My parents didn't even meet until 1945. My father was just 19 years old and was ruled physically unfit to serve his country. He had suffered a broken vertebrae two years before requiring spinal surgery. He was ice skating on a frozen river in North Dakota being pulled by a car on the shore (kinda like water skiing). I skidded smack into a tree on the shore. 17-year-olds do stupid things sometimes.

billboat

I was two months old--so I really don't remember much.

LALASD4

No where.

Garneteye

My Dad was at Pearl Harbor, was driving back to his ship with supplies in a stationwagon. He got out and took cover under a tarp covering some material, use to laugh at how stupid it was to think the tarp would protect him from injury. He spent the rest of the day taking wounded to the hospital in the stationwagon. He never wanted to talk much about that day.

OneCent

I was born in 1970, so neither myself nor my parents were on this Earth at this point. Nonetheless, I have a great sense for history (probably why I collect coins) and this attack was personal for a lot of people of that generation. Great respect and thanks for those that served and those that will serve!

Here is a link to the famous FDR speech that came the day after attack. He didn't mince words or give a crap about being pc. Great speech!


FDR Speech Day After Attack

pharmer

I hope someone doesn't start asking these questions for every significant day of our country's history.

But just in case...July 4, 1776? Why, I wasn't born yet.

Seriously, December 7, 1941? I wasn't born yet.

aficionado

The best part is,

We actually got the guy who did it. !!!

mgoodm3

My parents were toodlers.

Goober

Wasn't born yet, but my father had four cousins all serving on the Oklahoma on this day in '41. Three were brothers and one was another cousin. The three brothers survived but the cousin didn't make it.

Shamika

I was an egg.

kiyote

I was a small meerkat in Africa.

mrearlygold

My Father joined shortly afterwards and became a Submariner, served AND saw quite a lot of action in the Pacific Theatre.

GAT

Ay home in Dallas, Texas at the age of 7. I have visited the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor and can recommend a visit to everyone. To have look down at the Arizona and to have stood on Omaha Beach have been two of my WWll travel highlights.

Jcarney

<< <i>I hope someone doesn't start asking these questions for every significant day of our country's history. >>



Why not? As long as folks are relating it to coins, what's the big deal?

unknowncomic

I know my post isnt coin related but I have several pics of Pearl Harbor during and after the attack that I would be willing to share.
My Dad joined the Navy just after the attack and saw action in the south pacific.
I was born a year and a 11 days after the war ended

BillJones

<< <i>Where were you 65 years ago today? >>



A bunch of molecules waiting to be assembled only a few years later.

IrishMike

My wife and I were discussing this topic today and between us we had 8 uncles, one aunt, 2 fathers, one step-father and one ex-father-inlaw who all served this country in WWII. All came home save for one, my dad's brother John Charles who my brother was named after. This was truly an amazing generation of folks. I can only remember their participation in that conflict being brought up one time. My ex-father-inlaw and a few too many sips of whiskey and spoke to me about his experience in the Battle of Bulge, where he was a captain. I don't remember his exact words, but he tried to described finding his men dead in their foxholes after the woods were bombarded with no apparent damage except for blood seeping out of their eardrums, haveing did from the consussion.

God Bless Them!

LindeDad

Dad who was a Sgt in the army at the time was working with Mon on making me. That's is there story of where they where and what they where doing when they heard the news on the radio.

BTW I didn't show up until about D-Day and Dad ended up there too.

Gemini

I was baptised on this day and year (Sun. Dec. 1941) and 50 years later the movie was released in theaters on my birthday !!!

DickyBetz

What a terrible day in American History.

Hehe, my grandparents were only 2 years old in 1941.

anablep

Both my parents were born in 1941. So I was not even a sperm but maybe a partially meiotically divided oocyte by that point.

morgansforever

<<Dad who was a Sgt in the army at the time was working with Mon on making me. That's is there story of where they where and what they where doing when they heard the news on the radio.>>

Nice Washington , talk about blast