Remembering the Women at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941

During the entire Vietnam conflict, 8 female members of the armed forces were killed ( 9 if you count one Australian nurse ) - all were medical personnel: 1 was murdered, 1 died of illness, 1 was a possible suicide, 1 was killed in combat (shrapnel), and the rest in aircraft crashes. If I remember correctly, some 58,000 men were killed in that war. Does this mean the nurses were any less heroic ? No, but it does accent why women are NOT put into actual combat units.

I was 14 years of age when the Japanese atttacked Pearl Harbor, I joined the United States Navy at 17, boot camp in Great Lakes, 33 of my class were assigned to the USS InsiNpolia, I was called out and sent to duty at the Naval Air Station in Norman Oklahoma, Most of My budies are still at Sea, bottom of the Phillipine Sea, One of My greatest dissapointments in this life are the Japanese Cars taking jobs from our Detroit Manufacturers, 28% unemployment and your neighbor driving a Japanese import, where is our national pride. where is our neighborly love, Mac

God Bless the Women and Men of the Greatest Generation especially those in the military. They put a country and their lives on hold for almost 4 years to acheive Complete Victory. Thank You to those still alive and Rest In Peace for those departed.

Notice the black woman holding the nozzle of that large fire hose and what appears to be a Nisei (Japanese American) woman right behind her. Color and race didn't matter on that "day of infamy". They were trying to anything they could to help. Kudos to Navy Nurse Annie Fox for tending to the wounded while under fire.

First things first: thanks so much to all our service men and women, past and present, who have given so much for our country. I have the utmost respect for the veterans (not survivors) of Pearl Harbor. A great-uncle of mine is still interred on the Arizona. That being said, is this really an appropriate occasion to use for rhetorical point-scoring or jabs at the Greatest Generation for its refusal to integrate women into forward combat, as if it was out of bigotry, rather than a sincere desire to spare women the horror of combat, especially the brutality of the Pacific campaign? (You should read up on it sometime, Ms. Trussel. It will give you nightmares.) I don't understand the lack of respect here, and wish that on this infamous day, the author of this piece could have simply honored the bravery of these women, rather than using them as a backhand to their male counterparts. Absolutely disgraceful.

Hope we never forget this day.I know I wont.Just goes on to say hold your friends close and your enemies closer.