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In Rememberance . . . Pearl Harbor
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My dear father who passed in 2005 was a pearl harbor survivor. After he left Hawaii he was sent to Australia where he met my mom. They were married for almost 50 years. It's a beautiful WWII love story.
He would never talk about his Pearl Harbour experience and we learned to just leave him to his thoughts on Dec 7.
I sure do miss my Pop.
He would never talk about his Pearl Harbour experience and we learned to just leave him to his thoughts on Dec 7.
I sure do miss my Pop.
((Hugs)) for you tlcox - I hope your day is filled with wonderful memories of your dad.
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"A date which will live in infamy" - 81% of American households tuned their radios in to FDR's 12.08 speech to Congress. As a nation, we may never have been closer than those moments, that day.
Pearl Harbor saw my dad whisked off a 40-acre Kansas dirt farm and transplanted to a ship in the Pacific Ocean, providing medical support for invasions of myriad small islands, atolls, and reefs.
Pearl Harbor saw my dad whisked off a 40-acre Kansas dirt farm and transplanted to a ship in the Pacific Ocean, providing medical support for invasions of myriad small islands, atolls, and reefs.
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More than 2,000 people at Pearl Harbor and many more around the country are marking the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack that killed thousands of people and launched the United States into World War II.
The USS Michael Murphy, a recently christened ship named after a Pearl Harbor-based Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan, sounded its ship's whistle Friday to start a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., marking the exact time the bombing began in 1941.
Crew members lined the edge of the Navy guided-missile destroyer in the harbor where the USS Arizona and USS Utah, battleships that sank in the attack, still lie. Hawaii Air National Guard F-22 fighter jets flew overhead in a special "missing man" formation to break the silence.
"Let us remember that this is where it all began. Let us remember that the arc of history was bent a this place 71 years ago today and a generation of young men and women reached deep and rose up to lead our nation to victory," Rhea Suh, Interior Department assistant secretary, told the crowd. "Let us remember and be forever grateful for all of their sacrifices."
About 30 survivors, many using walkers and canes, attended the commemoration.
http://news.msn.com/us/pearl-harbor-vets-honored-on-71st-anniversary-of-attack
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A fatality of the Japanese attack on Pearl Habor in December 1941 has finally been identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) as Navy Seaman 2nd Class David B. Edmonston from Portland, Oregon.
Remains of Navy Seaman from Portland killed in Pearl Harbor attack identified
Fair winds and following Seas, Seaman 2nd Class David B. Edmonston!
A fatality of the Japanese attack on Pearl Habor in December 1941 has finally been identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) as Navy Seaman 2nd Class David B. Edmonston from Portland, Oregon.
Remains of Navy Seaman from Portland killed in Pearl Harbor attack identified
Fair winds and following Seas, Seaman 2nd Class David B. Edmonston!
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Family plans 2nd funeral for NC sailor who died at Pearl Harbor after scientists identify remains | WGHP FOX8
Edward Talbert will be buried on what would have been his 100th birthday on March 26, 2022.
RIP Seaman First Class Edward E. Talbert, welcome home.
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Frank Nicoles, a fireman with the U.S. Navy, was just 24 when he died in the 1941 attack. For decades his remains were unidentified, having been buried as an Unknown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu in the '40s, one of 394 such sailors and Marines who died on the Oklahoma.
Christopher Thompson was there when Nicoles's remains arrived in the Alamo City; he's one of the service members only living relatives who had been born when Nicoles died.
"It's an emotional moment," he said Monday. "The family is very gratified at the work that the military has gone to to try to identify and bring home casualties from the war."
Nicoles's remains were identified in 2016 using DNA samples from family, as part of the USS Oklahoma Project, which launched the year prior.
DNA samples have been collected from dozens of relatives in the seven years since, as the effort to identify other Unknowns continues. Officials with the Department of Defense said in September that, at that point, fewer than 50 of the initial 394 remained unidentified.
Decades after perishing at Pearl Harbor, World War II sailor's remains return to San Antonio | kens5.com
Christopher Thompson was there when Nicoles's remains arrived in the Alamo City; he's one of the service members only living relatives who had been born when Nicoles died.
"It's an emotional moment," he said Monday. "The family is very gratified at the work that the military has gone to to try to identify and bring home casualties from the war."
Nicoles's remains were identified in 2016 using DNA samples from family, as part of the USS Oklahoma Project, which launched the year prior.
DNA samples have been collected from dozens of relatives in the seven years since, as the effort to identify other Unknowns continues. Officials with the Department of Defense said in September that, at that point, fewer than 50 of the initial 394 remained unidentified.
Decades after perishing at Pearl Harbor, World War II sailor's remains return to San Antonio | kens5.com