tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524667768750163461.post6841128338786855091..comments2024-03-28T03:48:55.077-07:00Comments on Woodsterman: Never Forget! December 7, 1941Woodsterman (Odie)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00423574390748358762noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524667768750163461.post-59404045871910753772020-12-09T05:50:17.388-08:002020-12-09T05:50:17.388-08:00Tripwire, serve returned.<b>Tripwire,</b> serve returned.Woodsterman (Odie)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00423574390748358762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524667768750163461.post-49683487756689992292020-12-08T21:39:37.578-08:002020-12-08T21:39:37.578-08:00In the Marines, it's half mast.
TripwireIn the Marines, it's half mast.<br />TripwireTripwirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05456676234320797224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524667768750163461.post-19905776902638148222020-12-08T06:09:45.899-08:002020-12-08T06:09:45.899-08:00Mike, I knew that. That was in the instructions al...<b>Mike,</b> I knew that. That was in the instructions also.Woodsterman (Odie)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00423574390748358762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524667768750163461.post-64618961702259438572020-12-07T23:36:24.721-08:002020-12-07T23:36:24.721-08:00Staff. Masts are on ships.Staff. Masts are on ships.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10711749354957057020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524667768750163461.post-36073077338651737902020-12-07T16:24:24.648-08:002020-12-07T16:24:24.648-08:00Tripwire, I cheated. Mine came with instructions.<b>Tripwire,</b> I cheated. Mine came with instructions. Woodsterman (Odie)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00423574390748358762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524667768750163461.post-65577236044599290912020-12-07T13:48:54.187-08:002020-12-07T13:48:54.187-08:00I always thought the lower position on the flag ho...I 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.<br />Thanks, Odie.<br />TripwireTripwirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05456676234320797224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524667768750163461.post-53234015619663889892020-12-07T13:16:08.296-08:002020-12-07T13:16:08.296-08:00edutcher, it sure sounds like you do.<b>edutcher,</b> it sure sounds like you do.Woodsterman (Odie)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00423574390748358762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524667768750163461.post-31143652337071127002020-12-07T13:13:17.112-08:002020-12-07T13:13:17.112-08:00oldvet1950, there's another one ... NEVER!<b>oldvet1950,</b> there's another one ... NEVER!Woodsterman (Odie)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00423574390748358762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524667768750163461.post-52703438205524268002020-12-07T10:46:49.133-08:002020-12-07T10:46:49.133-08:00True, oldvet, but we're still fighting that fi...True, oldvet, but we're still fighting that fight. Just Remember, it looked pretty damned bleak for about 6 months afterward.<br /><br />Most 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).<br /><br />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?).<br /><br />We remember.edutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15033144261502435196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524667768750163461.post-17783758716768723382020-12-07T09:07:16.900-08:002020-12-07T09:07:16.900-08:00Never Forget!!! November 3, 2020!Never Forget!!! November 3, 2020!oldvet1950https://www.blogger.com/profile/17332788585533569757noreply@blogger.com