Remembering Pearl Harbor: 67 years
Never forget:
Read this wonderful story of how a 13-year-old boy persuaded Pearl Harbor survivors not to abandon their annual reunions. The intro:
Two years ago, a waning fraternity of local men who had survived the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor thought their 65th anniversary reunion would be the last.
“We are all getting old now,” Jack Carson of Overland Park told The Kansas City Star at the time, “and it’s almost too much to get anything done.”
A boy named Quinn changed that.
Today, Kansas City Metro Chapter III of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association — now fewer than a half-dozen veterans — will gather again for the 67th anniversary at a Mission community center.
The task of organizing and promoting the reunion was seized by 13-year-old Quinn Appletoft, a World War II buff who happened upon the group about eight years ago. Last year, he served as master of ceremonies.
Recently, he distributed fliers at two Shawnee Mission schools. His fliers read: “We will remember this day with survivors. … You can hear their stories of this tragic day and look at artifacts.”
Refreshments provided. Quinn hopes maybe 10 kids will come.
“When you have these guys together, what’s cool is they tell their own stories. I think that’s way better than reading out of a textbook,” he said.
Across the nation, aging Pearl Harbor veterans groups have begun to fold their collective tents: A Massachusetts chapter of seven active members held its final meeting in June. In Nevada, the Silver State Chapter No. 1 of the survivors association intends to surrender its charter today.
But the Kansas City chapter has been revved up by the kid from Mission and by his classmates.
And here’s a new report on the “winds execute” message and what the US did and didn’t know.
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Trolling and lies from Bill. Yawn.
spam and stupidity from the idiot.
Another troll and lie post by Bill.
Is he capable of anything else?
Meanwhile, anyone glancing at this is rolling their eyes at the immaturity…
How will you carry on JHSII when those who you have slavishly sought to identify yourself with by marching in lockstep see that you are nothing more than an ignorant clown?
The usual lies, trolling, and projection from Bill.
Nothing to see here, move along, move along…
Take a look at the quality of his latest counterargument! He can’t even help himself. He will post it again too… “Projection”… You are like “Rain Man”. How many minutes to Judge Wapner JHSII?
K-mart sucks JHSII…
Trolling and lies from Bill. That’s all he has.
On December 9th, 2008 at 6:04 pm, JHSII said:
So when I wrote “He can’t even help himself. He will post it again too…” I guess I wasn’t too far off… How many minutes to Wapner?
The funny thing is that this all started because neither I nor Michelle Malkin became blind slavish devotees to John McCain as Bill demanded. We demanded that McCain give us a reason to vote for him as Conservatives rather than just a reason to vote against Obama.
Bill didn’t want that.
And because we continue to challenge elected officials and candidates that say they are Conservative and vote and act otherwise, Bill can’t let it go.
I’ll ask again the question i asked long, long ago – and have repeated more than a few times – How do you attract support for Conservative candidates or positions by attacking those very same Conservatives that you have to depend on to give those candidates or positions a fighting chance?
There’s a simple answer.
Let’s see if it continues to elude Bill.
Nope, it started when you demonstrated that you are a creepy stalker with nothing of value to contribute to the conversation. If you scan up you will see that John McCain wasn’t mentioned when you decided to latch on to my post like a weirdo.
Here: My post
Your retarded response.
So well done, you have made a fool out of yourself again.
I didn’t want an Obama presidency, which is what idiots like you helped bring about.
Firstly: What does that has what to do with Peal Harbor? You idiot. And secondly, If I were to challenge “conservatives” who vote and act otherwise what would be the difference? The difference would be that I can provide a reasoned argument and you can only provide spam.
I have answered you over and over, I do not want your support for anything because YOUR support entails a knife in the back. You are not a “conservative” you are an idiot. None of which has anything to do with Pearl Harbor, the thread put up to memorialize other peoples sacrifices that you have managed to turn in to a disgraceful display by spamming it with your stupidity.
Yep, and here Bill goes off on another of his rants about how Conservatives helped elect Obama. Not even close to being true, but Bill doesn’t even try.
Then, again, Bill attacks me because he can’t refute anything I’ve posted. Bill can’t even get my criticism of him that started his attacks in this thread right.
All this proves is that Bill doesn’t actually read anything I post. If he had read what I originally posted he could have responded to that – instead he turned this whole thread into “I don’t like you” and “drop dead” like he has several other threads.
Bill doesn’t like me. Duh.
Too bad Bill appears fixated on proving how “superior” he is over me. We might actually be able to have a conversation if he was half as “superior” as he feels he is.
As for turning this rememberance and commemoration of the attack on Pearl Harbor into a disgraceful display – Bill alone can take credit for that. There’s nothing disgraceful about defending myself against a long series of visceral attacks.
Not conservatives, idiots.
Read. “Then there were those who didn’t show up. There were 4.1 million fewer Republicans voting this year than in 2004. Some missing Republicans had turned independent or Democratic for this election. But most simply stayed home. Ironically for a campaign that featured probably the last Vietnam veteran to run for president, 2.7 million fewer veterans voted. There were also 4.1 million fewer voters who attend religious services more than once a week….etc..
I LINKED TO IT. IDIOT. Here:
What does that have to do with John McCain you moron? You can’t even explain what you meant by it, idiot.
Since it is spam I have read it over and over. The same stupid thing.
Wrong again. If you are going to claim that I said something on a specific thread the least you could do is read it to see if I actually did.
You are confusing the threads that you have followed me around to make a fool out of yourself on.
Poor thing.
That is your well earned inferiority complex speaking.
Not interested.
When you use quotes it means that you are quoting someone. Where have I used the word “superior” regarding you?
You betray yourself.
…Showing how classy you are, you started in with the nonsense.
That you think:
Is an “attack” just further shows how insecure and narcissistic you are. It didn’t have one little thing to do with you, idiot.
Bill trolls and lies again. Again and again he proves my points right.
At least Bill admits he’s not interested in having a conversation. That’s probably the first truthful thing he’s said in the last couple of days.
Another divorced from reality piece of reposted spam.
TAKE THE HINT, IDIOT. STFU.
No, I called you an idiot, remember? Idiot?
For the record, my criticism of Bill’s comment was concerning this particular statement:
Saying “we were told to go out and shop” is like saying that Roosevelt responded to the attack on Pearl Harbor only by saying “Go out and start a victory garden”.
Our response was a great deal more than that – then and now.
Was our response not strong enough to 9/11? You bet. Our response was greatly weakened because the left wasn’t interested in declaring war on the terrorists – they were more interested in declaring war on President GW Bush. Bush couldn’t do the things that still need to be done because he caved in to the left in the spirit of “bipartisanship”. In that he was followed by a good number of Republican “leaders” that refused to lead.
In WWII both sides of the aisle in America fought to win. Today only Conservatives seem to want to fight and win, unless you count the liberal war against the Conservatives.
Care to read what I actually posted, Bill?
For the record, you are an idiot.
No, the obvious point that you sped over in an effort to continue hanging on to my every word like a creepy stalker was that there was more of an effort to mobilize the American population after Pearl Harbor. You concede as much, albeit WAY too late to not have made a disgraceful display of stupidity out of this.
No. I asked you to clarify here: ” What was “wrong” about that statement? Is it your point that the US population was rallied to the same degree to fight islamist terrorism as they were to fight the totalitarians in WW2?”
You didn’t have a point. Your “objection” concedes that I had a valid point. You just wanted some attention and were willing to make a fool out of yourself to get it.
This is your cue to start in with the spam again….
So Bill once again shows that he’s more interested in attacking me than anything else. He’s not interested in reading what I posted or refuting any of it, just getting in his shots at me.
That’s ok, he’s a troll and a liar. His credibility gap has become a credibility chasm and he just keeps on digging.
I do wish at least once he would at least make a feeble effort at provong me wrong.
So you once again show that you can only revert back generic responses like the idiot you are.
Just catching on to that?
I did both, idiot.
Where have I lied, idiot?
You want to lecture on credibility after a few hundred “I know you are but what am I” posts? Face it, you are through in the credibility department. Your only consolation is that you were a joke to begin with.
And you whine that I don’t read YOUR posts. Idiot.
You read what you want to read and see what you want to see, regardless of what is actually posted, Bill. That way you don’t have to bother actually responding to any of my posts. It’s a solid strategy – for a troll.
Keep up the good Work.
Just responded to them line by line, liar.
More of a response then they are worth, idiot.
That really is projection. You can’t address what I wrote in a meaningful way so you cut and paste your whining.
You really are an idiot, and you are no man at all.
When you attack someone for misspelling a word, that’s usually the first sign you’ve lost. In your case, however, it’s only the latest.
Keep trolling, lying, and attacking though. It seems to be all you can do.
Where have I “attacked” you for “misspelling a word” you unbelievable pu$sy?
In your case it is only the latest evidence that you are divorced from reality.
Keep up with the cut and paste BS. You are evidentially stupid enough to believe that continuing this is doing something other than making you look like a moron.
Just what is it that you are getting out of this? Attention? Are you that hard up that you are willing to cultivate contempt? Are you a masochist?
Naah… I am over intellectualizing your dilemma… You are just an idiot.
And once again Bill compares me favorably with Ronald Reagan.
Thank you, Bill.
Totally out of your mind… moron.
Yet another favorable comparison of me with Ronald Reagan from Bill Grant.
I didn’t know you had it in you. I continue to be impressed.
See folks… He is totally broken.
I’m simply doing what you do, Bill.
No, you are simply an idiot.
Another favorable comparison with me and Ronald Reagan.
Way to go, Bill!!
And a nut.