76 years ago today at five minutes to 8 AM in Hawaii the silence, and peace, was broken by the sounds of approaching planes. Those stationed on the military bases and ships looked up never expecting what was about to happen. Imperial Japan struck first using planes from six aircraft carriers to launch a surprise […]
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Posts tagged with 'Japan'
75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor
75 years ago today the US was suddenly attacked by the nation of Japan at Pearl Harbor. People woke up to a normal lazy Sunday all across the US never imagining that by the end of the day the US would be at war with Japan and engaged in World War 2. At Pearl Harbor, […]
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Hiroshima
President Obama went and visited the site of the first Atomic bomb drop, and only one of two dropped in anger, Hiroshima. Personally I view it long since past for a US President to have made a visit to the site. It is a moment which links two countries unlike any two in the world. But […]
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Pearl Harbor Day
74 years ago today marks the day the United States officially became involved in the war which would be known in history as World War 2. On that day, the Japanese navy, using six carriers, struck a blow aimed at crippling the United States navy. Whether or not they did is debatable, but what they […]
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Blue Lights
I can recall several years ago an experiment where cells were painted blue and pink. It was observed that the blue cells the inmates were more calm than in the pink, so if one thinks about it, this might actually make sense. It would be interesting to test this in the USA in higher crime […]
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Yesterday August 14
Well, it came and went and hardly anyone recognized it. The 70th anniversary of the surrender of Japan to end World War 2. There is the question, why was it so ignored?
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