“a date which will live in infamy…”
The official US Navy site on the Pearl Harbor attack.
There will be a memorial service aboard NAS Pensacola that normally features local survivors of the attack.
They have their own license plates:
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Other Florida Military Vanity Plates:
* National Guard
* U.S. Reserve
* Operation Enduring Freedom
* Operation Iraqi Freedom
* U.S. Paratrooper
* Pearl Harbor Survivor
* Ex-Prisoner of War
* Purple Heart
* Medal of Honor
* Gold Star
* Disabled Veteran
* Disabled Veteran – Wheelchair Symbol
* Disabled Veteran motorcycle
* Paralyzed Vets of America
* Paralyzed Vets of America motorcycle
Am I the only one who thinks there’s something a little off about displaying “service ribbons” on your frickin’ license plate? Of course I was never in myself, although I grew up as a post-WW2 Air Force brat.
I’m not a fan of these plates to begin with, although I know the over 100 variations are supposed to help fund all kinds of public/private organizations. Having the State marketing these categorized plates isn’t quite the same thing as sticking a decal on your car window, say. Oh well, one more trend for me to view with alarm… 😯
Many of those plate are free, PJ. All of the Disabled Veteran plates, and the plates for specific medals don’t cost the people who qualify for them anything to register the vehicle that the tag is assigned to, which is why people apply for them.
The Pearl Harbor plate is one of the free ones.
That’s interesting, Bryan. Something about it jogged my memory… I had forgotten that the Medal of Honor comes with a stipend. Thought I was remembering a custom from ancient Rome or somewhere.
Decided to look up the history of the USS Arizona Memorial (always liked that one)… they’re upgrading the visitor center… then I run across this:
Land of the Free & Home of the Brave? I swear, the irony is killing me. 😡
It is beyond irony to impose those kinds of requirements on a sunken vessel. The government is insane.
That is truly insane! I wonder which moron-in-Government’s idea that was? (not that it matters. They are all morons).*sigh*
I was looking through my DVD’s for a movie Sat night. I decided I wanted to watch on older one but couldn’t decide what. So I just flicked through them, and came across the 1980 Kirk Douglas movie “The Final Countdown” about the USS Nimitz getting sent back in time to the day before Perl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. 🙂 It’s an interesting exercise in “What would you do if…” 🙂
The time travel paradox is always good for a novel.
I have never understood why all of those vessels were tied up in Pearl at the same time, given the general uncertainty in the Pacific. It was probably SOP before WWII, but it seems to obvious that you would want to disperse your strength at times of tension, that I can’t get my head around it.
The Memorial is nice, but I can’t imagine who would see it as a target.