Well Gramps,
You sat on your motorcycle that day. I remember the story. Sitting on your motorcycle looking out and someone announced that Pearl Harbor had been bombed. A1 was given to you. No one would hire you, you were 17 and holding an A1 draft card waiting to turn 18. So you lied about your age because you couldn't find work and went to war.
"I remember the first time I was in a foxhole, the guy with me was too old, they should have sent him home already…and I'm too young! Here we are, neither of us should be there and we're laughing about it while bullets are flying over our heads! Even in war you find time to laugh"
These are the types of men they no longer wanted in our world. And since that day (((they))) have been succeeding in removing the fire in our hearts. God bless Gramps. You made it 86 years and with God.
Dec 7th Anons
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States' entry into World War II. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI, and as Operation Z during its planning.
Other Notable 12/7 habbenings
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1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei, Taiwan.
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1965 – Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
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1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
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1988 – The 6.8 Ms Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000.
Boom. MOAB. 2018 will be GLORIOUS. D5.
It all makes sense now