Remembering Pearl Harbor......

[Bobby DiDomenico]

Originally Posted by Mike Taylor 3601

One of my friends Dad was at Pearl Harbor,he is still living,I remember when Toyota was going to build factory in Georgetown,Ky. he told me how that should never happen and he would never drive a Toyota and my Grandpa was W W2 veteran he always said, we had to drop A-bomb to stop the Japanese,then US went over rebuilt them, taught them how to manufacture,etc. and they will take this country over without ever firing a shot.
Like Billy said when you are younger you don't realize how much you should respect and honor those older vets.
I now understand their opinions and have the utmost respect for their sacrifice and service they gave to our country.
Mike Taylor 3601

Our neighbor when I grew up had been a Marine in the Pacific during WWII. He didn't say much about it though it was pretty clear I'd best not be buying a Japanese car. Later I had a job with a defense contractor involving M109 and 110 howitzers. Two Marines I worked with there, one served in the Pacific in WWII and the other in Vietnam, would always do half a day November 10 for the birthday celebration. I never really understood what it was like in those islands until we hired a guy of Japanese decent to run our optical engineering unit. I don't think the older one ever said hello to the new guy or even walked past his desk. All he said was you had to see what they did to people. Neither of them ever gave dropping the bombs a second thought.

[SSDiv6]

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