Japanese Sign Final Surrender
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GREAT VIDEO OF "SURRENDER OF JAPANESE TO STOP THE WAR OF TERROR. HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!
Like you Wingy.....I was four years old and remember the rationing (coffee, sugar, salt, tea, et al) but then we farmed and provided most of our own food......just the staples we needed. If Obama wins next November, we'll likely be back in a similar situation....if you can't take care of yourself, then prepare to starve.......
In case anyone is interested, I was 13 days shy of 2 years old on this date, Dec 7th, 1941...don't remember much of that, but i do remember having our family move to my grandparents to live while dad was in the service. I also remember that my milk, food, clothing, and shoes were RATIONED. That means even though you had money to buy the stuff, you couldn't unless you had the ration stamps for the stuff... I also remember the blackouts...nobody could show a light outside of their homes after dark.
I also remember more things we did do and didn't have during the first 5 years of my life. A whole lifestyle of organizing oneself and family and townships toward a positive goal...seeing that we remained alive, and American...
Anyone who thinks they are "entitled" to something better steer clear of me...I am just not
in the mood for your crap.
Wingy
Commenting on Nimitz, he was the right man for the job..got it done...best example was the repair and return to combat of the Yorktown.
Wingy
I saw this on newsreels when I was a kid....I can tell you just what McArthur would have said...which was exactly what he DID say to Truman
chase the Chinese back across the river and fix it so they never want to come back...it would have saved a LOT of grief over the years in southeast Asia... and this got him fired....too many political fingers in the pie back then, AND NOW...
It's Wingy, in case you haven't already guessed...
Sunday, December 7th, 1941--Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington D.C. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the phone. He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet.
Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. There was such a spirit of despair, dejection and defeat--you would have thought the Japanese had already won the war. On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.. Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the waters every where you looked.
As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat asked, "Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this destruction?" Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked everyone within the sound of his voice. Admiral Nimitz said, "The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make, or God was taking care of America . Which do you think it was?"
Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?" Nimitz explained:
Mistake number one: the Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800.
Mistake number two: when the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow every one of those ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America . And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships.
Mistake number three: every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply. That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make or God was taking care of America .
I've never forgotten what I read in that little book. It is still an inspiration as I reflect upon it. In jest, I might suggest that because Admiral Nimitz was a Texan, born and raised in Fredricksburg , Texas --he was a born optimist. But anyway you look at it--Admiral Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in a situation and circumstance where everyone else saw only despair and defeatism.
President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job. We desperately needed a leader that could see silver linings in the midst of the clouds of dejection, despair and defeat.
What would MacArthur think were he alive today?