I also remember sitting on the living room floor looking at the radio
hearing about it. I was fortunate enough to be able to go there in 1988 and
stand on that Memorial. It was a very emotional experience but one that
everybody should experience if they get the opportunity.
Howard
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From: <FastmetalBDF@aol.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 1:15 PM
Subject: DECEMBER 7, 1941 A DATE THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY
> List : I would like to think that most of us on this list, even
> those that
> are not Americans, would take a few moments to consider the event that
> occurred in the far off Pacific on this day, fifty nine years ago, and all
> the good people serving their country that were lost . This was followed
by
> almost four
> years of the world being turned upside down by a war which has had some
> effect, direct or indirect, on almost every one of us, whether we remember
> those days or not . I hope none of us, or our children, and theirs, will
> have to
> endure anything resembling that war in this new century that we are now a
> part of ........ and let us all remember that the price of freedom
> is eternal vigilance .
> Bruce ...... old enough that I heard it announced on the radio
.......
> and still hoping I may one day visit the War Memorial above
> the sunken remains of the USS Arizona .
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