Today is the anniversary of Pearl Harbor

[davej]

I'm posting late. No acknowledgement at all?

Shame on all of you.

 

[LastButterfly]

We can acknowledge silently. Do we have to make a forum post for every single important event in history ? Because the forum will quickly become unreadable.

 

[opsircrocodile]

I'm posting late. No acknowledgement at all?

Shame on all of you.

> anniversary
are we supposed to celebrate it or something?

 

[goodcigar]

World War Two make special video series

 

[Miganto]

I'm posting late. No acknowledgement at all?

Shame on all of you.

A lot of us aren't American, to a lot of us it was a small part of a huge war and other than bringing the US into the war, it wasn't 'that' big of an event compared many other events, battles and loss of lives that happened in the war.

Also, most people acknowledge the day the war ended, are there any countries other than the US that acknowledge/celebrate the day they decided to join WW2?

I'm not being a dick, Pearl harbour is overly spot-lighted because it was an attack on the US and it brought them into the war, Pearl harbour casualties was ~4,000 and to me it's sad that such light is put on it compared to how many lives were lost in other areas.

Everyone is welcome to grieve and remember how they see fit but do not 'shame' people for not making a post about such an event when others with 1,000x more casulalties aren't. So shame on us? No, shame on you for your lack of perspective.

 

[Kazakk]

Happy birthday

 

[jumbi]

Unrelated to Pearl Harbor, some fun (and decidedly not-so-fun) facts courtesy of Wikipedia: December 7th is also when:

• Cicero was murdered
• The Battle of Montgomery's Tavern took place
• The Catholic-Orthodox excommunications were revoked
• The United States declared war on Austria-Hungary
• The Republic of China retreated to Taiwan
• Operation Frankton took place
• A devastating earthquake killed tens of thousands in Armenia and injured countless more
• The executions of the Tumult of Thorn took place
• The Great Storm of 1703 killed thousands

Days like these do give a nice opportunity to glimpse at how many different days carry painful (or hopeful, in the case of events like the revocation of excommunications) for many different nations and cultures

 

[Forster]

We don't celebrate Dec 7 just like we don't celebrate 9/11. They are somber occasions, like remembering you family members who have died. As for importance, I wonder how WWII would have turned out if the US didn't enter the war.