Comments on: Remembering a day that will live in infamy *UPDATED* http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/07/remembering-a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Wed, 22 May 2013 16:15:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Pearl Harbor + 71 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/07/remembering-a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy/comment-page-1/#comment-149385 Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Pearl Harbor + 71 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:04:08 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9937#comment-149385 [...] Bookworm’s post and video from 2009 and her post from 2011; also, some alternate history from Shannon [...]

]]> By: Gringo http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/07/remembering-a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy/comment-page-1/#comment-83863 Gringo Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:19:17 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9937#comment-83863 With the theme of secrets and ships going down, here are two videos that reflect that time. Here is a WW2 cartoon that warns that “Loose Lips Sink Ships.” Or at least one of the headers talks about loose lips. Whatever
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjRPY8Op8Xc
 
 
 
Here is a Portuguese group interpreting Duke Ellington’s “A Slip of the Lip Can Sink a Ship. YouTube does not have the Ellington version, but tonight I  am listening to an Ellington CD that contains the Ellington version of the song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjd9NVF0FYA

tried with deleting the gobbletygook.

tried by stripping out http//: out of URL out of both
 
 

]]> By: Gringo http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/07/remembering-a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy/comment-page-1/#comment-83843 Gringo Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:03:03 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9937#comment-83843


I didn’t find out until after my mother’s death  that she had a boyfriend who went down with the  Arizona. Our aunt  told us the special nickname the sailor had given my mother. I think we discovered a letter from the sailor  in a scrapbook that our grandmother saved. One of the secrets that went down with the ship, I guess- at least as regards our mother not telling us anything.
 
 
With the theme of secrets and ships going down, here are two videos that reflect that time. Here is a WW2 cartoon that warns that “Loose Lips Sink Ships.” Or at least one of the headers talks about loose lips. Whatever.
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjRPY8Op8Xc
 
Here is a Portuguese group interpreting Duke Ellington’s “A Slip of the Lip Can Sink a Ship. YouTube does not have the Ellington version, but tonight I  am listening to an Ellington CD that contains the Ellington version of the song
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjd9NVF0FYA
tried with deleting the gobbletygook.
 

]]> By: Gringo http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/07/remembering-a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy/comment-page-1/#comment-83842 Gringo Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:01:46 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9937#comment-83842

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I didn’t find out until after my mother’s death  that she had a boyfriend who went down with the  Arizona. Our aunt  told us the special nickname the sailor had given my mother. I think we discovered a letter from the sailor  in a scrapbook that our grandmother saved. One of the secrets that went down with the ship, I guess- at least as regards our mother not telling us anything.
 
 
With the theme of secrets and ships going down, here are two videos that reflect that time. Here is a WW2 cartoon that warns that “Loose Lips Sink Ships.” Or at least one of the headers talks about loose lips. Whatever.
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjRPY8Op8Xc
 
Here is a Portuguese group interpreting Duke Ellington’s “A Slip of the Lip Can Sink a Ship. YouTube does not have the Ellington version, but tonight I  am listening to an Ellington CD that contains the Ellington version of the song
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjd9NVF0FYA
If you see a bunch of gobbletygook at the top of the posting, it is because if I delete it, the links go rogue:http://http://
 

]]> By: Oldflyer http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/07/remembering-a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy/comment-page-1/#comment-83838 Oldflyer Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:39:40 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9937#comment-83838 Book, I had the opportunity to serve with, and  get to know, a Pearl Harbor survivor in the mid-60s.  He was in the signal tower when the attack occurred.  The signal tower controlled ship traffic into and out of Pearl, and sat on top of a huge water tank.  So, he had a prime birds-eye view of the whole thing.
As you know, from time immemorial, Navies have used flag hoists to signal between ships.  There was a sequence of flags that stood for “air raid”; but the signalmen on duty could not remember the sequence under the pressure of the moment, so they hoisted the alphabetical flags that spelled out “Air Raid”.  I doubt seriously that anyone was in doubt about the status, or was focused on the signal tower at that time.
My wife remembers what she was doing when the news came over of the attack.  I don’t recall.  I am sure that on a Sunday afternoon I was very busy playing cowboys and Indians.  Not long after that our games became Marines vs Japs.

]]> By: Tonestaple http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/07/remembering-a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy/comment-page-1/#comment-83837 Tonestaple Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:57:30 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9937#comment-83837 Observe today:

http://www.google.com

vs

http://www.bing.com

That’s why I use Bing as my home page now.  They seem to remember that they are an American company.

]]> By: » In Remembrance of Pearl Harbor NoisyRoom.net: Where liberty dwells, there is my country… http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/07/remembering-a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy/comment-page-1/#comment-83834 » In Remembrance of Pearl Harbor NoisyRoom.net: Where liberty dwells, there is my country… Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:26:55 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9937#comment-83834 [...] Bookworm Room – Remembering a day that will live in infamy *UPDATED* [...]

]]> By: Kim Priestap’s Political Insights » Pearl Harbor Day http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/07/remembering-a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy/comment-page-1/#comment-83833 Kim Priestap’s Political Insights » Pearl Harbor Day Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:05:43 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9937#comment-83833 [...] Bookworm is remembering “the day that will live in infamy.” [...]

]]> By: REMEMBERING HEROES TODAY AND NEXT WEEKEND « The Radio Patriot http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/07/remembering-a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy/comment-page-1/#comment-83832 REMEMBERING HEROES TODAY AND NEXT WEEKEND « The Radio Patriot Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:59:55 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9937#comment-83832 [...] The Bookworm Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)London callingWho knew he wrote? Leave a Comment [...]

]]> By: suek http://www.bookwormroom.com/2009/12/07/remembering-a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy/comment-page-1/#comment-83822 suek Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:09:11 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=9937#comment-83822 Not exactly Pearl Harbor, but close enough.  Something to think about, in any case.
 
http://nooilforpacifists.blogspot.com/2009/12/qotd_06.html

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