Did you remember?

[FE_rex]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/07/pearlharbor.anniversary.ap/index.html

btw I bought showasuar 13 years ago today

[Ranger50]

Nope, I'll never forgot.

[browzin]

Blackfive has "December 7, 2005 Letter from a US Navy Chaplain in Bahrain on remembering Pearl Harbor (http://www.blackfive.net/main/2005/12/chaplains_messa.html#more)" Here's an excerpt, of a letter with content just as applicable to those military members being lost in current efforts...

"By these words I hope to honor those who still bear scars, both physical and emotional, along with their fallen comrades, and all who mourn their loss.

As a relatively new chaplain with only five years on active duty I sought out the advice of those senior to ask the question, “What should you say in such a memorial?” I could share with you the details of the attack, the battle plan, and our response. I could list the ships lost and those spared. We could read the names of the 1,177 wounded. We could toll the ship’s bell for the 2,403 killed that day. From Chaplain Corps history I could recall that nineteen chaplains were on duty in the vicinity of Pearl Harbor that day. I could extol the courage and sacrifice of Chaplains Schmitt and Kirkpatrick, the two Navy Chaplains killed at Pearl Harbor. We might also recognize those who survived the attack and gather together in memorials around the country today.

But today I would rather speak to that which might have brought our comrades to the place of making that supreme sacrifice. If I may, I would like to share with you the oath, or one similar, that each one of us who have worn the uniform of the United States, took at one time..."