USS Arizona 12/7/41
"Some fine Sunday morning..." Colonel Billy Mitchell (1924)
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (12/7/41)
USS Arizona today
“With confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounded determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God.” (12/8/41)Franklin D. Roosevelt
Amherst 12/7/2011
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Good story on the front page of the NY Times today on the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, shutting down on 12/31.
Thanks for remembering.
All gave some
Some gave all
I will never forget
Was the town hall respectable enough to lower the flag to half-staff, or is that too militaristic? I lost relatives in that war and many of them had friends who died in the attack, and it would anger me beyond belief to hear Amherst neglected such a solemn day.
Yes, all town flags and that majestic Amherst College flag on top of Chapel Hill were all at half staff, where they belonged.
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