67th Anniversary of "A Date That Will Live in Imfamy"

Tomorrow, December 7, 2008, the US will observe what is called Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day---the anniversary of the Japanese Empire's surpise attack on the US Navy's Pacific Fleet's home base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island of Hawaii.

In what was probably his most-remembered speech, to the emergency joint session of the Congress (House & Senate) of the US on 12/08/1941, President FDR called that date the one date "that will live in infamy."

Now, I realize there has been a lot of speculation ever since then on whether or not members of, or even FDR himself, had some how "arranged" for all of the battleships and other accompanying vessels of the Pacfic Fleet to be anchored there during that period of time.

I doubt whether we'll ever know "the whole truth and nothing but" on that point, but be that as it may, our response to the Japanese Empire's raid probably did the most to change the lives and future policies of our nation's government and all of its citizens more than any one single act of the 20th Century.

As I can remember where and what I was doing when the news announcements came when JFK was assassinated in 11/1963....and as this generation will probably remember what they were doing as they watched the events of 09/11/2001 unfold before their eyes, the generation of which my parents were members can probably remember what they were doing on that late Sunday evening as radio news flashes were broadcast over their old radios of "something terrible" taking place over in Hawaii.

Regardless of what people called themselves on December 6, 1941 -- Republicans, Democrats, "isolationiists," or whatever, after FDR's December 8, 1941, speech they were all simply AMERICANS !!

We experienced some of that same sensation immediately after 09/11/2001, but that quickly faded as "The Global War on Terrorism" became a subject for debate in the succeeding years--and was probably the one single issue that changed the leadership of the US Congress in 2006, and probably was the single most debated foreign policy issue in this year's presidential campaign.

But back in the 1940's we laid aside our political and other issues to stand side-by-side with our neighbors and relatives.

In the words of President Lincoln almost 80 years earlier than 12/07/1941, we may forget what was said at the Gettysburg battlefield memorial dedication, "but let us never forget what they did here."

I hope that we who are living will take some time to remember those men and women whose lives were taken on that day, and those whose lives were taken in the war that followed.

Thank you, those of the ranks of "All gave Some, Some gave All"!

We have our freedom to post here on BB, to debate about just about anything we can think of, to attack, accuse, name-call as well as to agree, pray for, comfort and sympathize with "whoever" about "whatever" because of you.

The eyesight of your rapidly-depleting ranks is probably diminishing, but our thanks to you should never diminsh.

It's my hope that in our services on Sunday, December 7, 2008, you will take at least a few minutes to remember those of that generation, and thank God for those who answered the call to don the uniform of our country (be it a military one, a Red Cross one, a "Rosy the Riveter" one, a USO one, or whatever) "back then."

Thank you, members of "The Greatest Generation," for what you did "back then"!

It's because of what you did "back then" that we have the freedom to do what we do "right now."

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his freinds." --- John 15:13

 

Since I was the one who wrote the OP (and therefore consider it a vicious personal attack against me and my integrity as a brother in Christ for having the inmitigated gall to post what I did in my OP), I will attempt to answer your four Red Herrings:

1) Show me in my OP exactly where I made any such statements where I stated that enemy forces were less brave and heroic than American forces. Oh, that's right.........I didn't make any such statements, now did I?

2) Show me in my OP exactly where I made any such statements indicating that "stuff that other nations do to us is evil but it is heroic when we do it to other nations." Oh, that's right......I didn't make any such statements, now did I?

3) Show me in my OP exactly where I made any such statement contradictory to your assertion that "....our 'owners' [Whatever that means. The only who "owns" me is the One who bought me with a price--The precious blood of Christ!] encourage military patriotism so they will not run out of cannon fodder." Oh, that's right.....I didn't make any such statement, now did I?

4) Show me in my OP exactly where I made any any such statement contradictory to your assertion that "Since WW1 has any stinking rich family, Romanov (sp?) excepted, lost any money because of any war?" Oh that's right....I didn't make any such statement, now did I?


So far, according to my calculations, you're 0 for 4 in proving that my OP made any of these statements or assertions.

Therefore, I'm openly challenging you to come up with the uncontestable, exact, verbatim, word-for-word statements or assertions of my OP that prove beyond the shadow of doubt support any of the four accusations you openly made against me, a brother in Christ, for what I stated in my OP!

You have, for no reason that I can figure out except to rub your own unthankful and unappreciative attitude in the faces those whose bodies still lay unburied behind the sunken hull of the USS Arizona, or those buried at the Normandy Battlefied cemetery, or those buried in Arlington, or those whose graves dot the various military or other private cemeteries of not only the US, but also of all those other nations throughout the globe who were engaged in that world-wide conflict--not to mention the survivng members of untold families and communities of many nations all over the world whose sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, husbands and wives, friends and neighbors, etc., who never made it home.

If you want to spit on those graves of the fallen from WWII (Some of which are marked in English, some in French, some in Italian, some in German, some in Russian, some in many other languages--including Japanese), then go right ahead and do so.

But don't expect me to be there with you, patting you on the back for showing the rest of the world how a child of God shows his appreciation for those who've gone before him and preserved your freedom to spit on their graves.

 

Why then haven't you chosen to 'vote by your feet' and move to that country that has always had the perfectly fair, never-susceptable-to-abuse, and overall lower rate and and gross amount of taxation?

This perfectly ideal, always fair, always right, never unjust, always honest and always 100% righteous in all of its dealings---both foreign and domestic--country needs someone just like you to be its chief promoter and cheerleader!!

Oh, and BTW, when you find this forever totally and completely inerrant nation, do all of us here on BB a favor and give us directions to it.

After all, we'd probably like to set up shop there too!

Trouble is, the preachers and evangelists and the "home missionaries" in that nation would have difficullty leading souls to Christ because everyone there, from the highest to the lowest, from top to bottom, from the least to the greatest, wouldn't need to hear the Gospel of Salvation by Grace Through Faith in the Finished Work and the Shed Blood of Christ!

After all........... every one of that country's people would already be sinlessly perfect.