December 7, 2006 9:12 AM
Remembering Pearl Harbor Day
Jim Doyle tells columnist Gary Massaro what it was like in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941.
Doyle was a Navy pilot and aerial photographer."It was a fluke I was on the ground. The rest of my squadron had flown out," he said. "I had orders to gunnery school in San Diego. Back then, you had to wait for the next ship sailing out. So I was waiting on travel orders."
He was quartered in a hangar on the west side of Pearl Harbor.
Then he heard the explosions. He went outside.
"The sky was filled with airplanes. They were buzzing in every direction," he said. "They were flying at street level, just missing the buildings. I watched the Utah turning turtle - upside down. The scream of the planes, the terrible explosions were bad enough. But all the oil burning from all the ships, the burnt flesh - it was sickening."
Pearl Harbor survivors, now in their 80s and 90s, will meet for one last reunion in Hawaii on the 65th anniversary of the bombing.
December 7, 2006
10:31 AM
9/11 Truther writes:
Dubya caused Pearl Harbor. He knew and did nothing. Dubya lied, thousands died.
December 7, 2006
10:36 AM
Franklin Delano Roosevelt writes:
This is a day which will live in infamy.
December 7, 2006
11:23 AM
jay writes:
We're heading to Hawaii next year...is the memorial worth the trip?
December 7, 2006
11:49 AM
gr8fuldude writes:
EXTREMELY moving.
Fuel oil is still coming out of the Arizona.
So the trip a vacation? Honeymoon?
Try to schedule something light after the memorial visit though...
December 7, 2006
11:55 AM
CP writes:
I visited the Arizona Memorial a few years ago and I would definitely recommend it. A sobering experience like any war memorial. This one is among the most moving I have seen.
December 7, 2006
12:59 PM
jay writes:
Just heading out to visit friends who live there. Golf, diving, drinking, surfing, biking, fishing, smoking...not necessarily in that order.
I've never been...really looking forward to it.
December 7, 2006
1:53 PM
Cuba gooding writes:
I should have played a bigger part in the movie
December 7, 2006
1:58 PM
ben afleck writes:
me too!
December 7, 2006
2:48 PM
John Wayne writes:
I though my WW2 movie was the best.
December 7, 2006
3:15 PM
Reviewer writes:
"Peral Harbor" was a movie that was way beyond bad. It made "Desperate Housewives" look like "Masterpiece Theatre"
December 7, 2006
3:54 PM
sp writes:
Deborah Frazier's article on the Japanese internment camps on the7th of December, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, was inappropriate. The Rocky Mountain News should be embarrassed.
December 7, 2006
4:11 PM
jap man writes:
can we get over the pearl harbor thing already? I think we are even for the two bombs that you dropped on us, dontyathink?
December 7, 2006
6:58 PM
Hogars Closet writes:
How come no input from Hogar? Wasn't he there in person? You know, the guy with the fire extinguisher running down the dock crying and trying to save the world from Commies and Gays? Oooops, did the red party, I mean R party notice Cheney's gay daughter is preggie and her "life partner" has no legal rights to the baby? What about that Hogar? your party pretty much sucks ass when it comes to any values doesn't it? Do you have a bruise on your ass from the door?
December 7, 2006
7:03 PM
Hogar De Vuelta (العودة) writes:
My hearfelt appreciation for the Greatest Generation, and all they sacrificed to preserve the Greatest Nation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Generation
December 7, 2006
7:38 PM
Closet writes:
Arnie-
Giving away the USA? Don't forget about blacks. Didn't 'they' want guaranteed past and future compensation in the terms of winning the multi state payouts for all blacks due to their African ancestors were here slaving the tobacco fields for slave owners with names like Hogar?
December 8, 2006
7:47 AM
Anonymous writes:
As far as I see, the blacks are right up there with the gays for demanding special rights.
Let's keep this on topic, ok?