Tora! Tora! Tora!

Well said, sir.
Remember Pearl Harbor.

 

Also available on Netflix instant, FYI.

 

That is a really great movie and i have seen it many times. Way better than the newer one

 

I watch TORA! TORA! TORA! every year on Dec 7th, and The Longest Day on June 6th...

The vets in my family are gone, I hope y'all still have yours.

 

That is because Micheal Bay set out to tell an action/love story set against the backdrop of the day of infamy and D.F. Zanuck, Richard Fleischer and Kinji Fukasaku set out to actually tell the story of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

 

I had a chance a few years back to visit the Tokyo war museum near the big Shinto shrine and it was an eye-openingly different perspective. The German museums I have seen are openly apologetic for their government's role in the war (most individual servicemen deserve respect I think), but the Japanese opnely refer to the war as one of Western agression and the Pearl Harbor attack as an unavoidable result of western embargos and resulting shortages in natural resources such as steel and oil.

 

The movie as a whole is fairly bad, but watching the attack sequence in "Pearl Harbor" on Blu-Ray with surround sound is just incredible.

 

Time to read The Greatest Generation again.
Today's Americans wouldn't make such sacrifices. Sad, sad.

 

It's not been suggested as entertainment

 

Not to take things too far into a P&R direction, but if you read contemporary opinion from the 1930s, they said the same thing-- only they were talking about WWI. Furthermore, what Americans have accomplished in Iraq and Afghanistan is easily on a level with earlier generations.

 

One of our darkest days. Never to be forgotten.

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Heading there again on Saturday.

Some of the leading backers of the place are part of Japan's right wing. The country is not as homogenous as the outside world thinks it is.

 

In my opinion, Pearl Harbor, was a tactical victory and a strategic defeat for Japan. At the same time, the attack, was a tactical defeat and a strategic victory, for the United States.

 

What ruined that sequence for me was their use of some very modern-looking mothballed frigates for some of the pyrotechnics.

 

I love both of those movies. Was shocked in talking to a friend that he didn't know either date.

The passage of time is relentless and the associated distancing of people today from those events is undeniable

I found out my president's father and my father in law served together at Pearl in a PBY unit. The unit was deployed on Dec 6th. His father was with a buncjh of guys pushing a plane into a hangar. A bomb hit twenty feet away and failed to explode. The next day he was on the roof fixing the hole. That would be about the only hangar in the after pictures. He found the arming spinner stuck in the roof. My pres has a reproduction of it.

My father in law suffered from arthritis in the anckle and it swelled terribly. He wanted to be deployed with his unit very badly but the doc wouldn't let him go. Those men may have been in the adjascent hangar. They were all killed. My father in law never had arthritis again.

 

Ive been there also, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki...you are correct...I was at the new remodeled Pearl Harbor museum last year, for those that havent been there in a while it is completely different, very nice. The Japanese tourists out numbered Americans there but there were a still a few old timers there to share stories with!

 

Both great movies.

 

When ever I'm in Honolulu for a holiday,I always go to Pearl Harbour,taking the trip out to the Arizona memorial.
Words can not discribe the feeling one has as the oil from the Battleship rises.

 

Thank you.

 

Completely disagree. Not even close. Not even in the same league.