...A Date, Which Will Live In Infamy.

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• keyman64 Posts: 15,550 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 7, 2015 12:43PM

  Nice post and nice coin!
  
  
  
  

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• PTVETTER Posts: 6,028 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 7, 2015 12:44PM

  I remember this day where over 3,000 Americian's lose their lives.
  
  
  
  They deserve to be remembered!
  
  
  
  May they rest in peace.
  
  
  
  God bless america!

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• SkyMan Posts: 9,515 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 7, 2015 1:51PM

  

  Toned Franklins
  
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• GRANDAM Posts: 8,775 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 7, 2015 2:06PM

  The GREATEST Generation,,,,,,,
  
  
  
  Who also made some of the GREATEST Coins.
  
  
  
  

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• BryceM Posts: 11,863 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 7, 2015 3:06PM

  Two NewP's, just photographed today:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  We watched the movie "Pearl Harbor" with the kiddies this evening. It's not terribly historically accurate, but still it's a decent introduction to the time & sentiment prevailing at the start of the US involvement in the war.
  
  
  
  It might have started for us in Pearl Harbor, but it ended right here, on board the Mighty Mo, the last US battleship, where the unconditional surrender was accepted in Tokyo Harbor. How fitting that today, she lies berthed on Battleship Row on Ford Island, facing the Arizona Memorial.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• illini420 Posts: 11,467 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 7, 2015 4:37PM

  

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• Cameonut Posts: 7,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 7, 2015 6:57PM

  
  
  
  
  

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• SaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 7, 2015 8:29PM

  WWII is often remembered for all of the bad things that happened. But the war also necessitated a lot of social change, ie women being accepted into the workplace, blacks serving in the military etc. It was a point in history where America really could have folded, but we rolled up our sleaves, got together as a nation and defeated our enemies.

  Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!

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• oih82w8 Posts: 12,620 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 7, 2015 11:00PM

  I made it a priority to visit the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial when I was coming back from Korea in 1996. It is a very sobering experience and a fitting monument to the 1,177 Sailors and Marines (I don't think that there any women on board) who served aboard her. The Arizona still cries to this day "Black Tears".
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• joeykoins Posts: 17,598 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 7, 2015 11:01PM

  This day for me is very dear to me. For the main reason is what happened at Pearl Harbor and more personnel, Dec. 7, 1984, was the day that I first told my wife that " I Love You!". Every year I remind my wife of that special occasion.

  "Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 7, 2015 11:52PM

  A somber day, however, it brought America together like nothing before or since.
  
  Cheers, RickO

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• johnny9434 Posts: 29,335 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 8, 2015 5:40AM

  theres some wicked nice coin there all. thanks for sharing

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• EVillageProwler Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 8, 2015 6:39AM

  I have a picture very similar to the one posted by BryceM... It's from my vacation 2-1/2 years ago.
  
  Before going into the USS Arizona Memorial, we had to sit through a short movie about the events that lead up to the outbreak of war in the Pacific. I thought the movie portrayed the context in a balanced way. Despite my knowing quite a lot of the history of that period, and not having learned anything new from the movie, I found myself getting very emotional seeing footage of the attack and the deaths of so many American servicemen.
  
  I go back to Oahu every few years, and each time I make a visit to Pearl Harbor.
  
  

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• BillJones Posts: 34,850 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 8, 2015 7:45AM

  

  Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?

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