pearl harbor – Moe Lane

Tweet of the Day, A Sailor Rejoins The USS Arizona edition.

Apparently many survivors of the USS Arizona have chosen to have their ashes interred at the site. This story about Raymond Haerry is from April, but it is Pearl Harbor Day. So I think that it’s worth putting it up here.

And may God have mercy on who ever disturbs that site with evil intent, for those who have chosen to rest there will have none to spare.

Veteran who survived Pearl Harbor and died last year at 94 has rejoined his shipmates aboard the sunken USS Arizona. https://t.co/uZkbI8wGr4 pic.twitter.com/BnABNxYWKQ

— ABC News (@ABC) April 19, 2017

12/07/1941.

Provided as a public service announcement: you see, every so often somebody decides that it’s smart to take a slap at the United States of America.

Spoiler warning: it’s not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqQAf74fsE

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#rsrh December 7, 1941.

Text of the speech after the fold. But one quick note? To quote somebody or other: don’t ever try to piss off the United States of America. You might get deeply unlucky, and succeed.

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Go down swinging, Rod Blagojevich.

“And if it means I have to sacrifice myself to a higher cause, for the people of Illinois and for the principle of due process and the right to call witnesses, then so be it,”

For great justice.

CHICAGO — Illinois’ embattled but defiant governor, so fond of reciting poetry as he defends himself against federal corruption allegations, has turned instead to the history books to describe the emotional strain his arrest put on him and his family.

In an interview Thursday with The Associated Press, Gov. Rod Blagojevich compared his early morning December arrest by FBI agents to Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

He says it was a “complete surprise” but he’ll prevail, just like America in World War II.

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