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Thread #28452   Message #353350
Posted By: Cobble
07-Dec-00 - 08:08 PM
Thread Name: Dec 7th is 59th Anniversary
Subject: RE: Dec 7th is 59th Anniversary
Never forget Pearl Harbour, the most important lesson ever taught at school is HISTORY, what sickens me is it is pushed aside so much now. Everybody remembers the famous battles, but nobody remembers the biggest. Thousands of civilians died horrifically burnt to death, drowned, blown up, frozen to death just doing there job, it lasted from 1939 to 1945 THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC Americans, Canadians, Europeans and my own countrymen from the British Isles, just to keep that life line open to Europe. Ask the youngsters now about it they would'nt know what we were talking about. Family wise my father was an army gunner on merchant ships in the atlantic, he often talked with affection about America, one of my uncles was a royal marine commando, fighting with Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia and we lost one of our family on HMS Prince of Wales when the Japanese bombed her not long after Pearl. Never forget the sacrifices made Cobble.