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Abe
Senior Member

since 2003-05-28

Posts 694
Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end!

0 posted 2005-12-07 12:26 PM

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-one 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.

December 7th, 2005

SEVEN COME ELEVEN
(after 9/11)

On this day we remember
That “day of infamy”
And sadly we understand
More than we want to see.

A “sneak attack” on Freedom
And the American way
Brought back to reality
On Septembers’ eleventh day.

Thousands died in forty-one
With so many not retrieved
Resting in their watery grave
O’er which friends and family grieved.

Now we have another place
Known to all, as “Ground Zero”
Where we have another bunch
Of, the American Hero.

Sixty years of times’ passage
Hasn’t changed the “Patriot”
Hasn’t dampened our resolve
To remember, not, forget.

Those who gave their, “all”
And those, still yet, to “give”
Standing for, protecting
The kind of life, we live.

The casualties of war
Don’t always bear a gun
But, they all are Heroes
When all is said and done.

Now, we have another one
Of those “infamous” days
With the horrible cost
That Freedom, often, pays.

December 7th, 2001

An interesting and provocative article about Pearl http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=179

Del "Abe" Jones
Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity.

Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

1 posted 2005-12-07 06:58 PM

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Aenimal
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

2 posted 2005-12-07 07:14 PM

excellent Abe. yes the truth is they were warned and knew about the impending attack long before it happened. a military investigation after the war admitted failures to react but refused to asign blame. (sound familiar?)

it's nice to see someone not blinded by revisionist history. i guess in the end most will argue, the ends justified the means. but i wonder how much solace that is to familes of the twenty-four hundred if they knew the truth.

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

3 posted 2005-12-07 07:41 PM

An excellent write about the truth of both times, and to quote you,

But, they all are Heroes
When all is said and done.

Yes, they sure were.

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