Downvoting? I can't even post a video about Pearl Harbor on it's anniversary? Do you hate the military so much that you would downvote a historical event from World War 2? You take things way too personal rougy. Maybe you'd like to downvote the other Pearl Harbor videos here as well in the name of consistency.

Don't take it personally.

Sixty-Six years is a long time to carry a grudge.

Let's move on.

It's not a grudge. It's remembering an important point in history. Today is Pearl Harbor Day.

Move on? Is that what you tell someone when they tell you their mother or grandmother was killed in a concentration camp? Is that what you tell someone when they tell you their family died in the blast at Nagasaki? Is that what you tell someone when you learn that his father died on the beaches of Normandy or Okinawa? Grow up and stop being a troll.

Great post, Lurch. May we all remember those who came and went before us that stared into the face of death so that the Red, White and Blue may fly freely.

Yes - move on. This shit is old.

I had another comment, but I've decided against posting it. It'll only serve to draw this out. I guess we'll just never understand each other. History should not be forgotten, no matter your personal feelings.

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Re-queueing this video for one more try; last queued Friday, December 7th, 2007 12:21pm PST - requeue requested by submitter Lurch.

Yes, concentration camps... not many Americans were in these before being dragged in the Pacific War, which is why they waited two long years to "awaken", while continuing to provide equipment to both camps. If the Japanese had not attacked, who knows how many more would have died in those concentration camps.

A date which will live in infamy indeed, the first September of 1939, when no one stepped up to help Poland. They were attacked and conquered from two fronts, while supposedly having "allies" in France and England, who barely and fearfully declared war on Germany two weeks after the first attacks. Compare that to the U.S.A., who cut oil supply to Japan, and then lost a bunch of boats (not even a single carrier) in the middle of the pacific. The U.S. army had plans for a continental invasion of Europe (the Rainbow Five plans) since 1939 and had continually reinforced their positions in the Pacific since 1937. No one can say this Japanese attack was not expected. Only that the American people chose to bury their heads in sand until Pearl Harbor, like they are so wont to do.

Yes, it's damn old. But the wise forgives and does not forget. You United-Staters are doing it wrong: you forget and don't forgive!

"The sleeping giant awakes."

Never pass up an excuse to romanticize the non-existent morality of American military might.

You don't think the military was without shame even back then? Jeez, rougy, you must have been humiliated by the military at some point for you to hate it that bad.

You, and other soldiers, seem to have difficulty looking at the the American military in macro view, MGR.

You can see the micro, "me and my situation" point of view, but for some reason most of you won't step back and look at the big picture.

I've been commemorating Pearl Harbor, consciously, for about forty years now.

Time to move on.

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