Cheers for the Vets

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:08 am

Especially those from WWII, there are not many left anymore.

It was a Sunday morning much like this in 1941, sitting on the floor in the living room listening to the radio, when FDR came on the air and announced that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and we had declared War.. Pretty shocking news to a young boy approaching his 9th birthday in a week.
To you youngsters FDR Was, Franklin Delano Roosevelt the President of the United States. Radio was a large wooden box much like an old console TV set with no picture that received AM radio signals.
The world sure has change since the WWII advanced technologies much faster than they would have.
Driving down the rood a while back and my thoughts went back to my youth and though how the dreaded Mitsubishi Zero's had dominated our air power until the Hellcat came into production. Said to myself, hey oldman you are driving a Mitsubishi Montero, how the world has changed. Think a lot of people have Mitsubishi products of some kin in or around their homes.

toyfj40 · Post by **toyfj40** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 1:21 pm

Hip! Hip! Horay!!

and 'Thank You' to each and every one.
my dad spent most of his days in N.Africa
supporting the approach across the Mediterrainian...
only one of millions that made it happen.

USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor (Sat view)
http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=21.36499,-157.94983&z=18&t=S

bearandoldman · Post by **bearandoldman** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 2:01 pm

toyfj40 wrote:Hip! Hip! Horay!!

and 'Thank You' to each and every one.
my dad spent most of his days in N.Africa
supporting the approach across the Mediterrainian...
only one of millions that made it happen.

USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor (Sat view)
http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=21.36499,-157.94983&z=18&t=S

Neat link Tex and good to hear from you. Had 2 uncles one in each theater of the war. One of them talked about Leyte but not much and ht other was in the 82nd and never did mention much about the war either. Geuss they just wanted to forgt somew of the experiences.