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Pearl Harbor: A galvanizing tragedy and a united America

GOPUSA StaffBrunswick News (Brunswick, Ga.) Posted On 6:45 am December 7, 2017
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The Japanese attack on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor, in the Hawaii territory, on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, was intended as preventative action to keep the U.S. Pacific fleet from interfering with Japanese planned military action against locations in Europe.

At 7:48 a.m. local time, the base was attacked by more than 350 Imperial Japanese aircraft in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. When it was done, four U.S. battleships had sunk and all eight at the base had been damaged. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, a minelayer and destroyed more than 180 U.S. aircraft.

More than 2,400 Americans were killed and 1,170 were wounded.

The Japanese may have thought at the time that their mission was a success. Such a huge loss of life, vital equipment and ships was exactly what they were hoping for in the surprise attack.

In the end, the Japanese would be proven wrong.

Pearl Harbor may have caught us off guard, but it galvanized Americans in the war effort, thrusting the country into World War II, which ultimately lead to allied victory four years later.

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Our enemies around the world soon got a taste for what Americans were capable of when unified behind a single effort. Droves of men, and some women at the time, signed up for military service. People who didn’t found ways to help at home. Everything, it seemed, shifted its focus to the war effort that was the top priority.

The fight would lead to many more American lives lost. More than 290,000 American servicemen would die before the war was done. It was a tense time. Along our coast here in the Golden Isles, people living near the beaches and marshes were asked to turn off their lights at night. German U Boats lurked off our shores and in 1942 torpedoed vessels carrying supplies off the coast of St. Simons Island.

The war was an event unlike one we will ever see again. It was a time of terrible loss and excruciating pain for many, but it was also a time when Americans were together behind a common cause in a way that had not happened previously, and has not happened since.

That unity, combined effort and willingness to do whatever needed to be done was the lasting legacy of the Greatest Generation. It set the tone for decades of American dominance on the world’s stage and solidified ours as the superpower of the world, both militarily and economically.

While America is still the greatest it in its might and its economic influence, we are far removed from the unity we once shared. Instead, we seem more deeply divided along political, racial and even gender lines than perhaps ever before.

We could learn a thing or two from the the World War II generation. Sacrifice, service and selflessness were part of the fabric of our nation — they were ingrained in the people. These are qualities we could use in 2017, a time when self seems to rule the day.

We hope and pray it doesn’t take another Pearl Harbor to remind us of the importance of those qualities.

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backpacker
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8:49 am December 7, 2017 at 8:49 am
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God Bless those that gave the ultimate sacrifice on that terrible day in 1941! The sad thing is, with the snowflake millenials, I doubt whether we could fight a war, like World War II!

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    tws500
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    9:44 am December 7, 2017 at 9:44 am
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    I agree on all counts backpacker…

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    inluminatuo
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    2:20 pm December 7, 2017 at 2:20 pm
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    I doubt the current generation of single mom raised and socially indoctrinated citizens of physically and psychologically castrated engineered and altered males, would be able to even recognize team evil from team Good. In a metrosexual land which fears male strength either individually or collectively, when the wolf finally comes knocking at the door it will be gingerbread men, Simple SImons’, Blue Fairies and the three little social entitlement Pigs from the gun banned blue states that answer the door. America fought back in WWII because the Japs could not touch our industries, now depleted and taxed overseas. The North Koreans will soon be able to take them out with nukes, which will become a whole new ballgame unless we take them out first. Had Hiroshima happened first, there never would have been a Pearl Harbor.

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      ltuser
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      3:58 pm December 7, 2017 at 3:58 pm

      They are too moddy coddled and need their safe spaces for this generation to fight for victory like we had to after Pearl..

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capricorn1
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9:00 am December 8, 2017 at 9:00 am
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a date that will live in infamy!!
god bless them all.

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