Comments on: Pearl Harbor http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:44:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve Skubinna http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/comment-page-2/#comment-293610 Steve Skubinna Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:56:55 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-293610 I lived in Hawaii as a dependent in the early sixties. There were still many people there who had been alive that day, and most of the senior officers my father served under had seen combat in WWII. For me, Pearl Harbor was recent history, the same way you can tell stories about notorious family members from shortly before your own birth. Those stories are your own, even if they predated you, because they're incorporated into your family tradition. Even today, when I visit Oahu I see the terrain today overlaid upon that from 45 years ago, when the scars from 7 December 1941 were still visible and there were plenty of people who could tell you where they had been that day, what they had been doing, and what they saw. So for me, no study of history is ever dry and remote, whatever period I read of. That's because I can relate to a pivotal bit of history that was real to me in my youth, despite having been removed from me by two decades. I just wish there was some way to bring history to life for everyone else who dismisses it as unimportant, or as nothing more than a tedious list of dates and names. History is real life, and it's the road map of how we got here. I lived in Hawaii as a dependent in the early sixties. There were still many people there who had been alive that day, and most of the senior officers my father served under had seen combat in WWII. For me, Pearl Harbor was recent history, the same way you can tell stories about notorious family members from shortly before your own birth. Those stories are your own, even if they predated you, because they’re incorporated into your family tradition.

Even today, when I visit Oahu I see the terrain today overlaid upon that from 45 years ago, when the scars from 7 December 1941 were still visible and there were plenty of people who could tell you where they had been that day, what they had been doing, and what they saw.

So for me, no study of history is ever dry and remote, whatever period I read of. That’s because I can relate to a pivotal bit of history that was real to me in my youth, despite having been removed from me by two decades. I just wish there was some way to bring history to life for everyone else who dismisses it as unimportant, or as nothing more than a tedious list of dates and names.

History is real life, and it’s the road map of how we got here.

]]> By: Opining Online » Pearl Harbor http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/comment-page-2/#comment-293201 Opining Online » Pearl Harbor Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:33:49 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-293201 [...] Today, I visited the USS Arizona through the words of Neptunus Lex. [...] [...] Today, I visited the USS Arizona through the words of Neptunus Lex. [...]

]]> By: Infamy | Neptunus Lex http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/comment-page-2/#comment-293007 Infamy | Neptunus Lex Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:35:23 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-293007 [...] Chicago Boyz: Via David Foster, this excellent post from Neptunus [...] [...] Chicago Boyz: Via David Foster, this excellent post from Neptunus [...]

]]> By: Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Pearl Harbor - 67 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/comment-page-2/#comment-292987 Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Pearl Harbor - 67 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:03:12 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-292987 [...] Via David Foster, this excellent post from Neptunus [...] [...] Via David Foster, this excellent post from Neptunus [...]

]]> By: Tailspin http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/comment-page-2/#comment-409678 Tailspin Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:38:06 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-409678 Stood at the back of the bridge on the Connie that Sunday morning, not far from you Lex, although I didn't know it at the time. As we passed the Arizona I pondered what it must have been like to be attacked like that. The date was September 8, 2001. Three days later we found out. See http://tinyurl.com/28zw3h Stood at the back of the bridge on the Connie that Sunday morning, not far from you Lex, although I didn’t know it at the time. As we passed the Arizona I pondered what it must have been like to be attacked like that. The date was September 8, 2001. Three days later we found out.

See http://tinyurl.com/28zw3h

]]> By: Brandon http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/comment-page-1/#comment-409677 Brandon Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:55:02 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-409677 :( so sad :( :( so sad :(

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