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Pearl Harbor |
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Abe Senior Member
since 2003-05-28
Posts 694Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end! 
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A Day Of Infamy Around eight o’clock in the morn In Nineteen forty-one On December the Seventh Our World War Two was begun. We’d tried to stay out of it And said, it was not our fight But an attack by Jap aircraft Made us look and see the light. One hundred of our ships Were docked at the Seaport And planes parked all around With Troops for their support. The saddest part of the attack Was, it was known an hour before A Jap midget sub spotted and sunk And that may have changed the War. The crew of the USS Ward Who had sent it down below Radioed Pearl Naval Command Who didn’t believe their story, so. That one hour of warning The Navy Brass failed to heed May have saved so many lives Maybe lost without need. Some sixty-nine years later The truth was finally known The sub found with the holes Shells from the Ward had blown. Some have said our Government Knew of the attack beforehand Some accounts hard to believe And even harder to understand. Almost twelve hundred wounded Nearly twenty-four hundred died Our Country shocked and outraged While all of our People cried. Twenty-one ships sunk or damaged Plus more than three hundred planes Wrecks strewn along the bottom Which, still hold some remains. Many years have come and passed Since that day of infamy With so many more battles waged To help keep our Country Free. So sad it takes War for Peace But guess that’s the Human way But seems there’s more time fighting Than we spend with a peaceful day. Del "Abe" Jones Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity. copyright 1984 More poet |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
You tell history so well, dear Poet. And I agree with your ponderings. We should grow in wisdom and love and avoid wars! Love and peace. Margherita |
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s1nfully_1nn0c3nt Senior Member
since 2003-10-26
Posts 1105Watertown, NY |
It is sad, I've never understood how war could bring about peace. I've never supported the war, but I do support our troops. Enjoyed. -Trina. |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
Thank you. copied and in my poetry file along with others of yours. latearrival |
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mikeandrew Member
since 2010-11-18
Posts 198 |
well done abe. |
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ramisf Member
since 2007-05-17
Posts 93 |
enjoyed my friend... US was living in serinity backthen. people were killed for no reason. Who paid the price other than our youth and best trainned marines |
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Novus_Os Member
since 2010-07-21
Posts 115West Coast, USA |
There cannot be new sight without knowing what has been seen. To paraphrase Bob Marley. Bravo. Sometimes dark torches light darker halls ahead. Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured. |
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Andrew Scott Member Elite
since 1999-06-24
Posts 2558Redlands,CA,USA |
Well stated. It does seem to be the human way. I've always felt that the powers-that-be knew far more in advance of the attack than we in the general public have ever been told. They knew there was a need to become part of the conflict, but first they needed something to mold and solidify the will of the American people into a unified weapon of war. Pearl Harbor was that something. I'm definitly not a war-bird, but there is a time and place when you have to step up to the plate. We waited far too long to face the likes of Hitler and the rest. If Peral Harbor was what it took to wake up America, then so be it. "We'll chase them like rats across the tundra." |
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Abe Senior Member
since 2003-05-28
Posts 694Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end! |
Andrew, Agreed, but since then we keep jumping in places where we have no business or rational reasons, i.e., Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.The industrial military complex has controlled our Country ever since WWII! Del "Abe" Jones |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Nice writing to stir up thinking...the controvery remains...even today there is a wide array of opinions on whether or not we should have went after bin Laden and Saddam...I believe we were justified to go after bin Laden, but that doesn't mean we needed to occupy Afganistan...nor did we have to pretend that Saddam was a threat to us inorder to justify occupying Iraq...James |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
We have learned how to not fight wars. We have gone into the gentleman kind of war. Iraq should have been over and done with at the latest in six months. To mimic is a form of praise unless |
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