the day that will live in infamy
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is getting more and more remote
the next generations will see WW2 like we see the civil war, another era,
and its horrors forgotten.
just sayin
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is getting more and more remote
the next generations will see WW2 like we see the civil war, another era,
and its horrors forgotten.
just sayin
@bachophile said in the day that will live in infamy:
is getting more and more remote
the next generations will see WW2 like we see the civil war, another era,
and its horrors forgotten.
just sayin
After my son was born I told my dad that WW-2 is as temporally remote from his north as the Civil War was from my fathers. He gasped after confirming my arithmetic.
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@bachophile said in the day that will live in infamy:
is getting more and more remote
the next generations will see WW2 like we see the civil war, another era,
and its horrors forgotten.
just sayin
After my son was born I told my dad that WW-2 is as temporally remote from his north as the Civil War was from my fathers. He gasped after confirming my arithmetic.
@jon-nyc said in the day that will live in infamy:
@bachophile said in the day that will live in infamy:
is getting more and more remote
the next generations will see WW2 like we see the civil war, another era,
and its horrors forgotten.
just sayin
After my son was born I told my dad that WW-2 is as temporally remote from his north as the Civil War was from my fathers. He gasped after confirming my arithmetic.
John Lennon's murder (also this week) is more removed from today than the Battle of Britain was from his death.
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is getting more and more remote
the next generations will see WW2 like we see the civil war, another era,
and its horrors forgotten.
just sayin
@bachophile said in the day that will live in infamy:
and its horrors forgotten.
Oh, don't worry about that. We'll have plenty of our own.
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Pearl Harbor's 'Forgotten Ship'
Many remains of the USS Utah dead still are entombed in the ship, which still lies where it was sunk and strafed by the Japanese attackers exactly 81 years ago today.
Those killed included one Nebraskan — George LaRue, a gunner’s mate from Sutherland — and four Iowans: Forrest Perry of Northwood, Edwin Odgaard of Humboldt, Ralph E. Scott of Dubuque and Vernard Wetrich of Dexter. Scott’s brother, Melvin, also served on the Utah and survived.
It’s possible, though, that some remains that were recovered during a failed 1944 effort to salvage the Utah soon could be identified.
Earlier this year, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency disinterred 14 caskets from seven graves marked “unknown” at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, in Honolulu’s Punchbowl crater. Now they are being examined at the agency’s main lab in Hawaii. (DPAA’s second lab is at Offutt Air Force Base.)
The story of the USS Utah is a barely remembered footnote to the Pearl Harbor raid, compared with better-known ship casualties on Battleship Row such as the USS Arizona (1,177 dead) and USS Oklahoma (429 dead). It apparently was attacked by mistake.
“It bothered me that the Utah, nobody ever said anything about it,” said T.J. Cooper, of Coon Rapids, Minnesota, who authored a book in 2009 titled “The Men of the Utah, the Forgotten Ship of Pearl Harbor.”
