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It isn’t only President Obamah that’s ignorant….and what’s worse, its basically an entire nation…

Obama’s ignorance of the monumental event on the Missouri should be most troubling to all Americans and citizens of the many other countries that Japan mercilessly attacked and invaded.

The man’s ignorance is monumental.

I did indeed. I should know better. Big E, Hornet recovered the surviving Yorktown air group. Most current histories leave off the fact that ADM Ray Spruance ordered the deck lights turned on aboard Enterprise CV-6 risking attack by submarines (one of which sunk the heavily damaged Yorktown) to recover as many pilots as possible. They credit Spruance with having the courage to save them from ditching at sea.

A truly moving story ssnark. However, the Lady Lex (USS Lexington) was sunk at the battle of the Coral Sea. You have mistaken her for the USS Yorktown (damaged at Coral Sea and sunk at Midway)

I watched a video depicting a journalist asking Obama about “Victory in the Afghan war” and how it would be defined. Obama’s answer was shocking…. he stated that he ‘didn’t like the term “Victory” because it brought to mind visions of Hirohito ‘surrending to General MacArthur on the Missouri’.

Obama’s ignorance of the monumental event on the Missouri should be most troubling to all Americans and citizens of the many other countries that Japan mercilessly attacked and invaded.

Hirohito did not surrender to MacArthur on the Missouri. He was represented by other officials from Japan. MacArthur insisted that Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) retain the throne. MacArthur saw the emperor as a symbol of the continuity and cohesion of the Japanese people.

General MacArthur was instrumental in restoring Japan, and wrote Japan’s first Constitution…ever. Obama might like to know (after having given his last speech in the “enemy camp” at West Point) that MacArthur included in the Constitution the first women’s rights for Japanese women and their right to vote for the first time in history.

One wonders what is taught in universities these days and what Obama thinks is actual history.

Some 40 years later I was stationed in Hawaii and would be asked to conduct re-enlistment ceremonies on board USS Arizona. In the early morning these ceremonies are conducted before the public is allowed aboard. There’s something very sobering and yet special as you administer the oath under the memorial to the 1,177 men who lost their lives there. It is as though there is a connection to them and a reminder of what the price of service to our country can mean.

As one who supported Obama, I can say this the left are unhappy, the right are unhappy, the center are unhappy but our future is in peril so we must NOT decide based upon political polling but what is right for our country.

Argue against ObamaCare on facts not on what could be considered mindless babbling.

Those bombs fell because we didn’t adapt to the threat, and in fact we kept telling ourselves that we could talk the Japanese out of their policy of aggression and empire. We came within a few aircraft carriers of losing the Pacific out of our willful blindness to the nature of the Japanese.

It is important to remember that at the very time the Imperial fleet was steaming for Pearl, Japanese diplomats were in Washingington negotiating “peace” with Roosevelt’s diplomats.

I would worry more today about what Iran is up to if they do “unclench their fist.” Obama and Hillary are deluded if they think they can negotiate with these people.

Pearl Harbor Survivers Association here. Lessons from history are the most potent. Michelle Malkin on “never forget”: Pearl Harbor 68 years…….

Thanks Michelle – I have a family member still on the U.S.S. Arizona.

If any of you are ever in Honolulu, the memorial is a must see.

I visited the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial over 20 years ago, and the memories of it are still very fresh.

Meanwhile, over here we are simply letting ourselves forget the whole thing ever happened.

So there’s a symmetry of sorts: on December 7, 1941, most Americans couldn’t have shown you where Pearl Harbor was on a map. And today … same thing.

The difference is, back then Americans could’ve told you that Franklin Roosevelt was President. I doubt today that most Americans could properly situate Roosevelt historically.

On a related note, I read in the news today that a strong case has been made that the 5th Japanese midget submarine that participated in the attack has finally been found, possibly ending one of the enduring mysteries of that day.

The Bataan Death March, Palawan, and the murder of civilians on Wake Island justified five or six more a-bombs.

Palawan
Suddenly, in an orchestrated and obviously planned move, 50 to 60 Japanese soldiers under Sato’s leadership doused the wooden shelters with buckets of gasoline and set them afire with flaming torches, followed by hand grenades. The screams of the trapped and doomed prisoners mingled with the cheers of the Japanese soldiers and the laughter of their officer, Sato. As men engulfed in flames broke out of their fiery deathtraps, the Japanese guards machine gunned, bayoneted and clubbed them to death. Most of the Americans never made it out of the trenches and the compound before they were barbarously murdered, but several closed with their tormentors in hand-to-hand combat and succeeded in killing a few of the Japanese attackers.

God Bless the Enola Gay and friends or all our our people may have died such.