Tag: Pearl Harbor

• God Is In The Details

  All week long I have been intently observing three different scenarios. The first being my younger brother. Then the news that nearly brought me to tears with Daniel Penny’s acquittal. The last one didn’t hit me until Monday night, but I knew the date was coming fast. Monday the not guilty verdict was what America…

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  December 12, 2024

  Spontaneity At It’s Best

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• The Day Before

  Today was a nice day. It was good for our walk this morning and then this afternoon it turned. A front came in and it has been raining since, whether lightly or somewhat harder. I know it’s not completely the same, but I think about 1944 and what that day was like. It was a…

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  June 5, 2024

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Modern American History

  ancestry, D-Day, England, Family, grandparents, history, hope, July, June, military, Parents, passionate, Pearl Harbor, privilege, proud, replacement, storm fronts, Veterans, World War II

• The Last of an Era

  Our recruitment numbers are eviscerating and show that the American idea of exceptionalism seems to have disappeared. The military brass have been attempting to gaslight Americans using minority groups that don’t love this country to say they do and make it look like they are showing a slight effort to encourage recruitment. Well it’s not…

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  April 2, 2024

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  administration, Americans, California, gaslight, generations, Hawaii, history, navy, Pearl Harbor, priorities, recruitment, USS Arizona, White House, world-war-ii, WWII

• December

  The first week of Christmas has already disappeared. What happened? How is it that it’s Friday the 8th. The Christmas Program is over and tomorrow is Grandma’s Church Program. It just doesn’t seem possible for that to be the next item on the Christmas list. I do think they have moved it up a week…

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  December 8, 2023

  Bible Reflections, Family, Modern American History

  cards, choir, Christmas, Church Program, crying, emotions, Family, family mannerisms, holes, letters, life, loving, observations, Pearl Harbor, prayer, reading, School Christmas Program, stroke, writing

• 1941 Speech to Congress

  Eighty-two years ago President Franklin Roosevelt very articulately spoke to Congress, Americans and the World. Looking back at my time at OCU my senior year I wrote a paper about this very man. Some of my research showed me Roosevelt himself let this attack happen in order to step into war. This was a new…

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  December 8, 2023

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, God’s Timing, Modern American History

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• A Day To Remember

  Exactly 82 years ago America was attacked by the Japanese. Very few people alive today remember that day. Grandma Betty told me she was in her home, the kitchen and she remembered how cold it was that day here in Indiana. She heard about it first over the radio that day. Of course I never…

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  December 7, 2023

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  barbaric, correspondence, day of infamy, faith, Family, Governor Bannon, October 7, parenting, Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, radios, September 11, terrorism, terrorist attacks

• A Pearl Harbor Spy

  December 6th the day before chaos erupted on the Hawaiian Islands. I used to think only about the day of the massacre and nearly forgot about the day before. What were people doing before the kamikaze Japs unloaded their frustrations onto the American and Hawaiian people? We know now that Japanese spies were asking questions…

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  December 6, 2023

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, God’s Timing

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