"Aircraft prepare to launch from the Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carrier Akagi (赤城, red castle) for the second wave of attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii."

Photographed on December 7, 1941.

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"December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."

Let us never forget Pearl Harbor 🇺🇲. On this day, 82 years ago, this surprise attack, which all happened in only ONE HOUR AND FIFTEEN MINUTES, damaged all 8 of the battleships that were at port and sunk 4. Three cruisers, three destroyers, a training shop, and 188 US aircraft were all destroyed, which resulted in the loss of 2,403 American lives, with another 1,178 injured. This unprovoked attack led to the United States entry into WWII.

Today, the USS Arizona, the only battleship to not be raised, is memorialized in the shallow waters of Pearl Harbor, serving as a reminder of this tragically infamous day.

Celebrate with us the bravery of our soldiers, sailors, and airmen during the cowardly attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 during World War II. It remembers the sacrifices of the warriors of that time who fought in World War II against Japan. This beautifull

Lou Conter, who passed away today at the age 102. Lou was the last remaining survivor of the USS Arizona, which was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

There's a lot that doesn't add up about Oct 7th. Do you believe it?

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Teachers should to be taught how to identify and handle anxiety attacks and meltdowns.

It was 11th grade.

My US History teacher should not have been in a high school. She was 100% a college professor. It was her first year at this school and you could just tell she was only there because no college teaching positions were open and her husband was a coach at the school. She was an okay teacher. I had 2 shit teachers that year and she wasn't one of them. I didn't mind her class but it wasn't my favorite. But she was totally a college professor. She was cold and very "you're responsible for yourself" which doesn't sound wrong, she just wasn't very emotionally involved in any of our lives. She wasn't friendly, y'know. Anyway, we were learning about Pearl Harbor.

TW: Descriptions of a real world act of war and the things that happened. Description of a anxiety attack/sensory overload meltdown. Proceed with caution.

I'd learned about Pearl Harbor before. But it was always in a factual manner. Japan bombed us and we said "screw that" and officially joined WW2. Just very cut and dry; this is what happened. That's how I had learned about it previously. So when she told us a week in advance that we would be watching the movie Pearl Harbor in class, I thought nothing of it. It'll just be a documentary explaining what happened. At 16 years old, I didn't know that I was supposed to Google trigger warnings for the movie. Why would I? No teacher had ever shown me a movie like that before. So that day comes, class starts, she turns off the lights, turns up the volume, and starts the movie. For the first 20 minutes, I watched completely fine. But this was no documentary. This was a reenactment. The first bomb hit. It was so loud. There was screaming, sirens blaring, explosions, and all kinds of death on the screen. I maybe lasted at most 10 minutes of that, non-stop, before I, completely safe in my classroom, began covering my ears, closing my eyes, crying, rocking myself, and likely hyperventilating. All in front of my classmates. And this woman did NOTHING. She sat there completely unfazed and never did a thing. I eventually had a moment of clarity to realize I needed to get out. I ask her if I could step out into the hall and thankfully she let me.

The next day, I tried to explain to her what happened and she had the audacity to insinuate that if I should have asked to opt out of watching beforehand. That if that kind of stuff was overwhelming to me, I shouldn't have watched. UM WHAT??? How the hell was I supposed to know that watching literal depictions of war was going to make me meltdown? I'd never been shown something like that before!!!! To me, it's weird that you could watch that and not want to rip your ears off.

But that's not the point. The point is this b- this woman literally sat there and watched her student rocking back and forth plugging their ears and did absolutely nothing. No sympathy. No assistance. Nothing.

Teachers should be required to learn how to identify an anxiety attack or meltdown and help the student excuse themselves to the bathroom before they can draw unwanted attention to themselves.

If I was having the beginnings of a meltdown in class and a teacher pulled me aside and asked if I could take this whatever paper to this whatever teacher, but then told me quietly to actually just go step out to the bathroom so that I can calm down, that teacher would immediately become my favorite teacher and I probably wouldn't even have a meltdown, or it would at least be slightly delayed, because someone just showed me kindness and support. that was a really long run on sentence but oh well.

Remember the Attack on Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941.

Although the U.S. was not in a state of war during the surprise attack on its naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (then a U.S. territory), Pearl Harbor is one of the most consequential “battles” of World War II. That’s because it motivated the United States—then only tangentially involved in the conflict—to become a full-fledged enemy of the Axis powers.

Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, 353 Japanese aircraft attacked the Pacific naval base, damaging eight battleships and killing 2,403 Americans. Luckily, the U.S.’s aircraft carriers—which would go on to prove vital to the war effort in the Pacific—were not at Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack. Because the attack was launched without any declaration of war, the Attack on Pearl Harbor was eventually tried as a war crime at the Tokyo Trials in 1946.

[Dive Deeper: The U.S. Navy Just Laid the Keel for a New Attack Submarine, USS Arizona]

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, (Oahu) , Hawai’i, 81 years ago today- triggering the United States entry into WWII.

Never forget.

Map of Pearl Harbor with attacks marked.

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“gene hackman declined to play fdr in pearl harbor because his wife was japanese so him appearing in a film about the japanese attack on pearl harbor would have been painful for her” i mean live laugh love etc everyone live your life and your truth but this is the single dumbest thing i’ve ever heard in my life

A Group of 360 Japanese Warplanes Struck the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in a Brutal Attack. The Surprise Assault Caused a Significant Blow Against the U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pulled the United States Irreversibly Into World War II. December 7, 1941.

Image: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A small boat rescues a seaman from the 31,800 ton USS West Virginia (BB-48), which is burning in the foreground. Smoke rolling out amidships shows where the most extensive damage occurred. Note the two men in the superstructure. The USS Tennessee (BB-43) is inboard. (Public Domain). On this day in history, at 7:55 a.m. on December 7, 1941, a Japanese dive bomber…

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Cameramen aboard Japanese aircraft document the Attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941

Thornton Wilder - The Skin of Our Teeth at Very Little Theatre

A mellow summer continues to provide peaceful space for pondering past and future travel adventures. With the havoc and devastation of deadly wildfires, floods, and wars currently happening in the world, it feels good to be hidden away in leafy Oregon. I’m slowly working my way through a “to do” list, and diligently trying to tame the woodsy landscape that surrounds my home. Letting things go…

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1944-Chūichi Nagumo (南雲忠一)

Chūichi Nagumo (南雲 忠一, Nagumo Chūichi, 25 March 1887 – 6 July 1944) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Nagumo led Japan's main carrier battle group, the Kido Butai, in the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Indian Ocean raid and the Battle of Midway.[3] He committed suicide during the Battle of Saipan.

On 6 July 1944, Nagumo killed himself with a pistol to the temple rather than the traditional seppuku. His remains were recovered by U.S. Marines in the cave where he spent his last days as the Japanese commander of Saipan.[19] He was posthumously promoted to admiral and awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Golden Kite.