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Lest anyone think I don't check the calendar...

By The Armorer on December 7, 2005 | | Comments (12) | TrackBacks (7)

I do. It's December 7th. It was a bad day, 64 years ago, throughout a large swath of the Pacific Ocean, as the Japanese moved to secure their "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere."

And kicked the Giant in the nuts.

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I didn't forget. Click here.

And we salute the living...

As we remember the Dead.

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Now is the time at Castle Argghhh! when we dance, In Memoriam.

Don't kick Giants in the nuts. They didn't like it then. They don't like it now.

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U.S. Army Capt. Alfonso Prieto from the Military Transition Team, Headquarters Headquarters Company 1st Battalion 327 Infantry, 101st Airborne, Fort Campbell Ky., looks out of his gun turret of a tactical vehicle waiting to convoy to an Iraqi Military Base in Kirkuk, Iraq, from Forward Operations Base McHenry, during Operation Iraqi Freedom Oct. 29, 2005. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Andy Dunaway) (Released)

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Catching my eye: morning A through Z from The Glittering Eye on December 7, 2005 9:01 AM

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Remembering Pearl Harbor from Righty in a Lefty State on December 7, 2005 9:10 AM

My parents' generation were galvanized to action sixty-four years ago, when the Sunday morning attack on Pearl Harbor shocked the nation. Read More

Pearl Harbor, and a Lesson - 2005 Edition from TacJammer on December 7, 2005 12:26 PM

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This Day In History from A Blog For All on December 7, 2005 1:24 PM

Today's date should ring some bells, even for those folks who are too young to remember the events of which I speak from personal experience. I imagine that they still teach 20th Century History in school these days. Read More

Pearl Harbor Day in the Sphere from pamibe on December 7, 2005 4:22 PM

Bloggers paying tribute to the day that still lives in infamy: John of Argghhh! says “Don’t kick giants in the nuts“. Dizzy Girl pledges and gives us some great links. Ogre prints the President’s 2005 Pearl Harbor Remembranc... Read More

Lest We Forget from Small Town Veteran on December 7, 2005 6:23 PM

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Review: Hiroshima from The Grand Retort on December 7, 2005 7:26 PM

Hiroshima, by John Hersey © 1946 & 1985      In the review published on the back of the 1985 version of Hiroshima, the New York Times reviewer completely copped out when he wrote "Nothing can be said about this book...

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12 Comments

By Barb on December 7, 2005 9:10 AM
Thanks for the pics, John. The civilian one is a good reminder to all those who only think the military was attacked on that day. Bullets and shrapnel are pretty indiscriminate.
 
By Raymond B on December 7, 2005 10:09 AM
Thanks for the WW2 pictures from Pearl Harbor , I am glad to see people still honor and remember these brave Americans on a day that many dispalyed bravery on. Raymond B www.voteswagon.com
 
By kat-missouri on December 7, 2005 1:46 PM
Well, I always liked the "awakened a sleeping dragon" myth, but I think I really like the "don't kick us in the balls cause you won't like what happens when we get up off the floor".
 
By ry on December 8, 2005 8:09 AM
I waited to say this: what the hell is up with our country that this went almost unmentioned just about everywhere else? Nothing but a little 'on this day' blurb in any paper I saw yesterday. Nothing mentioned in the school paper. No flags were lowered on campus(a few in the housing tracts, but nowhere else). A country that has no sense of itself and its history is a fine mess to behold. Yesterday was annoying--- in part because Ms. Thang qouted the idjit Chomsky in saying we deserved it--- and I predict 9/11 will be the same thing in 2 years(sad and pathetic, but that's how I'm reading the general populace).
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 8, 2005 8:35 AM
Ry - buy her a burqa and a english-language Koran for Christmas.
 
By cw4(ret)billt on December 8, 2005 11:13 AM
Ry - Scratch the English language version. Give her one in Arabic. Then book her one-way from the closest airport to Charlie DeGaulle with a connecting flight from Reagan International. Use the name Fatima Zarqawi. Pay cash for the ticket. Tell her there's a seekrit message in the book, kinda like the DaVinci Code, but it will only appear if she keeps muttering "Inshallah" while she's going through security...
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 8, 2005 11:27 AM
Bill, yer mean. Like yer new hat?
 
By cw4(ret)billt on December 8, 2005 12:20 PM
Heh--check your e-mail...
 
By cw4(ret)billt on December 8, 2005 12:23 PM
Me? Mean!?! Hey, *I*'m not the guy who put Ry's name on the privy-plaque...
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 8, 2005 12:28 PM
*That* was an earned distinction, and he didn't have to die for it, like Sergeant Provo...
 
By cw4(ret)billt on December 8, 2005 12:36 PM
Heh. Sure sounds like he wishes he *was* though...
 
By ry on December 8, 2005 6:26 PM
Well, yeah. YOu try having to circle your car to make sure theres nothing attached, paying some undergrad to start it for you in case some sapper buddy o' John's has place a present in it, watching every corner to make sure nobody hiding nearby with a .22. 'Taint fun. At least Jess got the life insurance set up so she won't be left totally with nothin'. Youse a mean one, John da Grinch de Argghhh. ;) ANd infortunately Ms. Thang isn't dumb, just crazy and whacked. Otehrwise, it might be worth the attempt.
 
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