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How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day? - 12/7/2007 9:17:15 PM

Procrustes

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I wore goggles and a scarf to work and sat at my desk making airplane noises all day. What did you do?

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RE: How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day? - 12/7/2007 9:31:11 PM

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I made the coffee when I came in to the office today, like I always do. I just made it extra strong.

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RE: How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day? - 12/7/2007 10:47:40 PM

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I listened to my collection of radio broadcasts from 07DEC41, and of course played WitP.

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RE: How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day? - 12/7/2007 10:49:24 PM

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Never thought of it as something to be celebrated. More like a time for a moment of reflection...

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RE: How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day? - 12/7/2007 10:56:44 PM

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I mentioned to everyone I talked with that it was Pearl Harbor day.

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RE: How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day? - 12/8/2007 12:58:06 AM

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When I came into office this morning, I�put�on my�Hachimaki (courtesy of the game 'Pacfic Storm' - not that I purchased�it, I work for a games distributor and got it for free - the hachimaki was actually the only useful thing in the game�box...) - coming from an ex-Axis country, I couldn't resist...�Of course my colleagues had no clue about the historic date so I got some strange looks...

Oh, and I mentioned to everyone I talked with that there will be a big announcement!

< Message edited by LargeSlowTarget -- 12/9/2007 1:26:40 AM >

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RE: How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day? - 12/8/2007 1:10:46 AM

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I had a private moment and spent the day on the forum's, and I fixed two leaky faucets, and one of them still leaks

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RE: How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day? - 12/8/2007 1:20:50 AM

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I've been busy bugging the powers that be with AI and editor questions. Now I have the "Nose on the Wall Gang" (3 grandkids) over for a sleepover night. As for a celebration, my dad has a good friend entombed in the Arizona and I don't think it was a day for celebration, for him, for my dad, nor for me.

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RE: How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day? - 12/8/2007 1:24:10 AM

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My magazine just published two WWII Navy articles - one about an best-selling author who was KIA when Jap CAs and a BB sank USS Gambier Bay during the Battle of Leyte Gulf (yikes, an escort carrier vs. big boys); the second about a gunnery office who served on a merchant vessel on the first convoy to Murmansk; his ship underwent 156 bombings and eventually was sunk in the river leading to Murmansk. I wrote the second article and edited the first. It's a heck of alot of fun to spend my work time preserving stories of our past (when I'm not playing WitP, of course).

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RE: How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day? - 12/8/2007 1:55:45 AM

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So, how many are going to celebrate by getting bombed??

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RE: How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day? - 12/8/2007 2:08:28 AM

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I reflected that it would have been my father's birthday were he still alive. He was a Navy flyer in WWII but not until after Pearl Harbor. He should have graduated high school in 1941 but as a junior he got pneumonia and basically missed a whole year of school when he was a junior so he didn't graduate until 1942. He once mentioned that practically every boy in his former class (it was a small school - only about a dozen I guess) joined either the merchant marine or one of the services right after Pearl Harbor and that half of them were dead by the time he entered the Navy in October 1942.

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RE: How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day? - 12/8/2007 12:13:40 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Kid

I mentioned to everyone I talked with that it was Pearl Harbor day.

I do that every year also.

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RE: How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day? - 12/8/2007 4:39:48 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Procrustes

... What did you do?

Dec 7th is my Aunt's birthday, so in her card I cut out a news clipping of the Arizona exploding w/the "day of infamy" headline.

Needless to say, we never let her forget her birthday.

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RE: How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day? - 12/8/2007 4:43:57 PM

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Do any of you recall the photo of the B17 on the ground at Pearl with everything behind the wings missing? Supposedly that was the first US aircraft downed by the Japanese. One of the crew still lives in the Atlanta, GA area. There was an lengthy article about him in yesterday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.

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RE: How did you celebrate Pearl Harbor Day? - 12/10/2007 7:01:16 PM

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I hit on a girl in a bar. Talk about going down in flames....

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