December 7, 2009, - 9:01 am
Pearl Harbor Day: The Day We Start Trying Navy SEALS for Fighting Our Enemy
On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked. Until then, America hadn’t really entered World War II. They attacked us. Just like all the many attacks in which the replacement “they”–Islamic terrorists and the vast majority of the Islamic world that cheers them on–have attacked us, and not just on 9/11/01, but well before and after.
And yet, it’s ironic, that today, America’s military courts are scheduled to arraign Navy SEALS, accused of giving a bloody lip to the Islamic terrorist in Iraq who masterminded the 2004 murder, burning to a crisp, and hanging of American contractors working for Blackwater. These are the same military courts, by the way, in which we now refuse to try our enemies, preferring to give terrorist masterminds more favorable settings and more rights than our own servicemen. The late survivors of Pearl Harbor are turning over in their graves.
Yesterday, we responded to the Japanese who attacked us and their allies, the Nazis. Today, we attack our own and enable our new Nazis.
On December 7, 1941, 2,388 U.S. military personnel were killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 1,178 American servicemen were wounded. 12 ships were sunk or beached, 9 damaged. We lost 164 aircraft to total destruction, and 159 others were damaged.
Today, 68 years later, few seem to get it. And sadly the heroes–the men who acted with courage when they were blindsided by a full frontal attack on our shores–are dying out. Most are in their ’80s and ’90s . . . if they are alive at all. Let’s not let their literal courage under fire, and the price those who died on that day paid to serve this country, be forgotten. When they’re all dead–when all of the survivors are gone, let’s not forget their story. Don’t forget the U.S.S. Arizona and what happened there.
Today, we are fighting the new version of those allied with the Japanese–-the new Nazis. They are far more committed, far more dangerous. They don’t just bomb ships and planes and military. They torture and murder innocent civilians.
Do we have the resolve? It seems that our resolve is sinking along with the Pearl Harbor Memorial which is sinking into the ground beneath it and may need to be propped up? Who will prop the back-to-sleep America from its sinking beneath the Islamic fundamentalism on our own shores?
Navy Corpsman/Pearl Harbor Survivor Sterling Cale Was in Charge of the Burial Party Removing Bodies Form the USS Arizona. Read His Story.
I shared stories about the veterans and their last reunions and visits to Pearl Harbor, in 2007, and in 2006, and it bears repeating again:
Remember Pearl Harbor, because they won’t be around for too much longer to remember it for you.
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As I wrote a few years ago (but it remains on target, today):
[Then,] we were fighting a more finite, defeatable enemy. On December 7, 1941, 2,388 U.S. military personnel were killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. 1,178 American servicemen were wounded. 12 ships were sunk or beached, 9 damaged. We lost 164 aircraft to total destruction, and 159 others were damaged.
Today, we are fighting the new version of those allied with the Japanese–the new Nazis. They are far more committed, far more dangerous. They don’t just bomb ships and planes and military. They torture and murder innocent civilians.
Do we have the resolve? It seems that our resolve is sinking along with the Pearl Harbor Memorial which is sinking into the ground beneath it and may need to be propped up? Who will prop the back-to-sleep America from its sinking beneath the Islamic fundamentalism on our own shores?
Sadly, while we have many young men serving in our military and willing to fight the enemy and do what it takes to survive, we haven’t had a President who shares this will. We didn’t have it in George W. Bush, who spent 7.5 years pandering to the enemy after it attacked us, and even the year-and-a-half before that pandering to that same enemy in order to get the worthless “American Muslim endorsement.” Now, we have a “leader” who has even less will than he had.
From my 2005 coverage of Pearl Harbor Day, don’t forget these words from the Memorial:
My brothers lie in state,
In clear waters
Of testimony, their willingness
To answer our Nation’s call.
An angel bends down, whispers in my ear,
Never forget. Never forget.
Honor them. They
Gave their lives for you.
No man hath a greater love.
Do them honor.
And never forget.
Never forget Pearl Harbor. And never forget that we are facing an enemy far more fierce, an enemy that is slowly defeating us.
Tags: 1941, December 7, Hawaii, Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor Day, World War II
Debbie,
Thanks for remembering. Too many webhosts will let today go by without the slightest acknowledgment of this anniversaty. last night I commented on another thread here. If I may, I’ll cross post it here…………
It’s almost surreal that as Americans we are sitting here, on December 7th, the anniversary of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor at odds as to whether or not we should be vigilant. Thousands sent to watery graves in that attack slipped from our memory enough to allow us the complacency to send thousands more to their deaths in a firey inferno on September 11th. Pray to God we never again become that indifferent to the threats we face.
Billy on December 7, 2009 at 2:32 am
Billy on December 7, 2009 at 9:55 am