Well to be honest I hadn't forgotten. I went to another
blog this morning and read a comment on their Pearl
Harbor Remembrance Day post. This guy was really
pissed off at we other bloggers for not doing a
Remembrance Day post. I made a conscious decision
not to this year. I thought there would be enough of
it being posted around the Blogosphere. You all know
that this blog is anything but unpatriotic. Below is a
picture of my own flag at Half Staff. Please forgive this
little tantrum.
Never Forget!!! November 3, 2020!
ReplyDeleteTrue, oldvet, but we're still fighting that fight. Just Remember, it looked pretty damned bleak for about 6 months afterward.
ReplyDeleteMost Baby Boomers know Pearl Harbor Day. The only ones who don't are the little Commies like Zippy who "get all wee-wee" (a grown man talks like that?) about what we did to the Nips (and the Krauts and we weren't even mad at them) because we could do it to the Commies to (we are however, wearing them down nicely).
My memories to Bellinger, VanValkenburg, Dorris Miller, Don Stratton (do you know how badly that guy was burned and kept on going?), the guys caught flatfooted at Schofield and Hickam, Taylor and Welch (talk about guts), Joe Taussig and the guys on the Nevada, the guys on Battleship Row who were trapped (did you know 5 of the 6 ships that crossed the Nips' T at Surigao Strait were raised from the mud at Pearl?).
We remember.
oldvet1950, there's another one ... NEVER!
ReplyDeleteedutcher, it sure sounds like you do.
ReplyDeleteI always thought the lower position on the flag holder was for variety in displaying the flag. Now I know it's for half mast. Duh.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Odie.
Tripwire
Staff. Masts are on ships.
DeleteTripwire, I cheated. Mine came with instructions.
ReplyDeleteMike, I knew that. That was in the instructions also.
ReplyDeleteIn the Marines, it's half mast.
ReplyDeleteTripwire
Tripwire, serve returned.
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