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Re: 16 days to die at Pearl Harbor
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2016, 12:06:49 PM »

"Your loved ones died quick. Didn't feel a thing." is a lie that was probably old when the Roman Legions said it to grieving widows.

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Re: 16 days to die at Pearl Harbor
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2016, 03:50:00 PM »
I never heard that story before.  My screen has suddenly become blurry.
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Re: 16 days to die at Pearl Harbor
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2016, 08:35:31 PM »
if they could hear them in there for that long, they should have been reachable. At least it sure seems like it.
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Re: 16 days to die at Pearl Harbor
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2016, 11:59:39 AM »
Lot of things working against them like was mentioned in the article, such as risk of explosion or flooding the rest of the ship and losing it altogether.
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Re: 16 days to die at Pearl Harbor
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2016, 03:01:05 PM »
Lot of things working against them like was mentioned in the article, such as risk of explosion or flooding the rest of the ship and losing it altogether.

Plus, the technology we have that might have made such a rescue possible today did not exist in 1941. 
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Re: 16 days to die at Pearl Harbor
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2016, 06:26:50 PM »
I wonder if it would be a breach of diplomacy to subject the current Japanese PM to those conditions when he visits Pearl in a few weeks. Or he could apologize..
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Re: 16 days to die at Pearl Harbor
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2016, 09:32:21 PM »
Well it's over, Abe didn't apologize. I wonder if Obama apologized privately for the unfortunate loss of the brave IJN pilots who were only doing their patriotic duty.
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Re: 16 days to die at Pearl Harbor
« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2016, 11:12:13 PM »
Well it's over, Abe didn't apologize. I wonder if Obama apologized privately for the unfortunate loss of the brave IJN pilots who were only doing their patriotic duty.

Only after bowing to him.  BHO was always big on bowing.
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Re: 16 days to die at Pearl Harbor
« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2016, 03:16:56 AM »
Only after bowing to him.  BHO was always big on bowing.

It make it easier for him to reach their... nevermind.
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Re: 16 days to die at Pearl Harbor
« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2016, 05:35:14 PM »
I wonder if it would be a breach of diplomacy to subject the current Japanese PM to those conditions when he visits Pearl in a few weeks. Or he could apologize..

Neither the Japanese PM nor Obama should apologize for WWII.  That all happened well before their time and neither of them is responsible in any way.
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Re: 16 days to die at Pearl Harbor
« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2016, 07:42:17 PM »
Neither the Japanese PM nor Obama should apologize for WWII.  That all happened well before their time and neither of them is responsible in any way.

I agree. To me that's no different from BLM suggesting that I should pay reparations to current blacks because of slavery. Sorry, I don't own any slaves, my parents didn't own any slaves, my grandparents didn't own any slaves. I don't "owe" any reparations to anybody.
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