On 12/11/10 12:06 AM, Tim wrote:
On Dec 10, 9:56 pm, wrote:
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:53:41 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

This is not only a historic day for the United States, but also
involved our Navy, and it's ships. Really big boats.

Personally I prefer celebrating the Battle of Midway. That was when we
started sinking their boats. (First week of June)

I do appreciate that we have changed the flag etiquette for 12/7
Now we start at half mast in the morning and at noon you run it to the
top of the pole.

Reply:
Yup. Couple of years ago we were at the local VA hospital with valentine
cards and one guy is a riot. Gets to telling us about doing photo recon in
the South Pacific and is getting ready to go fly and the local commander
tells him they are loading him with bombs, no recon today. Go bomb the
Japanese at Midway. Some great story were told. No bragging, just telling
how life was as a young man in the Aircorp.

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him
with a terrible resolve."-Isoroku Yamamoto

It is a great line, but it was most likely created by a Hollywood
screenwriter, and is not a quote by the Admiral.

from Wikipedia

Neither At Dawn We Slept, written by Gordon Prange, nor The Reluctant
Admiral, the definitive biography of Yamamoto in English by Hiroyuki
Agawa, contain the line.

Randall Wallace, the screenwriter of Pearl Harbor, readily admitted that
he copied the line from Tora! Tora! Tora!. The director of Tora! Tora!
Tora!, Richard Fleischer, stated that while Yamamoto may never have said
those words, the film's producer, Elmo Williams, had found the line
written in Yamamoto's diary. Williams, in turn, has stated that Larry
Forrester, the screenwriter, found a 1943 letter from Yamamoto to the
Admiralty in Tokyo containing the quotation. However, Forrester cannot
produce the letter, nor can anyone else, American or Japanese, recall or
find it.