Today is a "Day that shall live in Infamy" So why no mention on Smellaware online. Oh well a lot of people have already forgotten 9/11.

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this was also the day in 1787 that Delaware became a state

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Smile, God loves you

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Ignorance is our most expensive commodity ...

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2008 Morning folks at least there is some mention this year on TNJ

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Here's a solution to all the controversy over full-body scanners, searches, pat downs, etc. Have an appropriate booth that you can step into that will not X-ray you, but WILL detonate any explosive device you may have on you.

They get their wish and we get ours!

Take a moment today to remember them.


I have personal greivences today... 9 years ago today my dad passed

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Pearl Harbor commemoration to focus on US response

By HERBERT A. SAMPLE – 16 hours ago


This year's observances in recognition of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor will be a departure from
the usual program, and will include a focus on the response to the attack. Here, the U.S.S. Arizona topples
into the sea after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack. AP file

HONOLULU (AP) — With an eye on the immediate aftermath of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, thousands of World War II veterans and other observers are expected on Sunday to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the devastating Japanese military raid.

The theme of the event — "Pacific War Memories: The Heroic Response to Pearl Harbor" — is something of a departure from the past.

Usually, the commemoration focuses on the attack on the USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor and several other installations on Oahu. But this year's remembrance ceremony will center more on the months following the raid, said Eileen Martinez, chief of interpretation for the National Park Service.
"We're moving into the Pacific War, the first strike back," she said.

To that end, one of two keynote speakers will be Thomas Griffin, a surviving member of the pilots and crew who answered the Pearl Harbor attack four months later with an aircraft carrier-launched bomber raid on Tokyo.

The B-25 mission, led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle, inflicted little damage on Japan but boosted morale in America and led the embarrassed Japanese government to launch an ill-fated attack on Midway Island.

The other keynote address will be delivered by Admiral Robert F. Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

Sunday's commemoration will feature a performance by the U.S. Pacific Fleet Band, morning colors, a Hawaiian blessing, a rifle salute by the U.S. Marine Corps and a recognition of those who survived the attack.

At 7:55 a.m., when the attack began 67 years ago, a moment of silence will be observed. The destroyer USS Chung-Hoon will render honors to the USS Arizona, which still lies beneath the harbor with its dead.

Almost 2,400 Americans were killed and nearly 1,180 injured when Japanese fighters bombed and sank 12 naval vessels and heavily damaged nine others on Dec. 7, 1941. The Arizona, which sank in less than nine minutes after an armor-piercing bomb breached its deck and exploded in the ship's ammunition magazine, lost 1,177 sailors and marines. About 340 of its crew survived.

Other major installations on Oahu, such as Wheeler Field and Kaneohe Naval Air Station, also were attacked.

This year's ceremony comes weeks after construction began on a new visitor's center for the USS Arizona Memorial. The existing center, which was built 28 years ago on reclaimed land, is sinking. Officials have said it will be unusable in a few years.

This year's event will be held a half-mile away at Kilo Pier of Naval Station Pearl Harbor, the site for next year's commemoration as well. The new visitor's center is scheduled to open Dec. 7, 2010.

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There was an article on page 1 of the local section. I can remember growing up where the front page of the paper looked like a re-print of the original. TV was full of films, etc. Many people don't give a shit today, and surely don't appreciate what those brave men and women in the service went through. God help us if we should have another one like that because half the people in this country don't have the stomach for it and would be calling for us to surrender in a few weeks.

I will take a few moments today to give thanks to this generation.....
God Bless America

I will too Max but I will also call my sister to wish her a happy birthday and torture her with my caterwauling.

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May the wind take your troubles away. -Son Volt

Not surprising in these times, I don't go to their web page any more and have not looked at the paper, but I bet there is the usual "Where's Joe" fluff BS article.

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Zoë says, Enough is enough, Bring on the Spring!

My bad I guess, didn't see "Where's Joe", Let's wish that is a reoccurring one.

They did have an article on page one about a WWII vet, but the Pearl Harbout article was on page A-16 , if you don't count the cartoon on the Editoral Page.