Pearl Harbor
It all started on the seventh of December,
A day that we all should forever remember.
From out of the sky, so blue,
Scores of Kamikazes flew.
The sailors below took their positions,
They boldly fought under fierce conditions.
Fires rapidly consumed ships as men jumped over the sides
Falling into the sea to be at the mercy of the tides.
Airmen jumped into their planes ready to take flight
Flying high, they sped, ready for the horrific fight.
They attacked with massive power and speed
Giving the enemy no time to heed
At the end of the day, many men were lost
Their valiant sacrifice came at a cost.
We always remember
That fateful December
I seem to remember (and a quick Google search verifies) that kamikaze suicide tactics were NOT used at Pearl Harbor, rendering your fourth line incorrect. Primarily, bombs were dropped in order to sink ships and destroy planes. Kamikaze tactics were used later in the war primarily against American ships, as the military situation grew more and more desperate for the Japanese.
I do remember seeing a history channel special about some people that thought the Japanese might have used one or more midget submarines during the Pearl Harbor attack, and the evidence for their claim. Very interesting show.
You should at least try to be historically accurate. I mean your poem says that it ended that night. So if it started and ended the same date. If you’re only talking about the Pearl Harbor attack an event that lasted a single day. You wouldn’t say that it started that day, you’d just say it happened that day.
It’s hard not to think that you didn’t mean the war started on December 7th, 1941 and that’s just not true.
The picture at the bottom of this post is of a manned torpedo, which I believe was Japanese-made. It is at the Pearl Harbor Memorial, just outside the submarine. I can’t remember the history of it though; whether any were used at Pearl Harbor (I don’t think so). I also can’t remember if it was a suicide device, or if there was a way for the pilot to “bail” before sending it on its final run.
The attack on Pearl Harbor? I think so. Of course there was a lot of planning by the attackers, but the planes definitely took off after midnight…
A lot of Americans probably couldn’t even tell you the start or end dates. And if you think the war started in 1939 you obviously didn’t experience it in China or one of the many other countries already occupied by the Nazis by that time.
Sheesh, it’s just a poem! The war (for the USA) started on that day, and the attack happened on that day.
From an American I would expect that to be an honest question. Hopefully for Canada’s sake, you were trying to be funny?
While the Nazis did a lot of occupying in the early days, it was with less fighting and more lies and broken promises. In China the Japanes did a lot more stuff along the atrocities line. The Nazis caught up later.
Ah yes that’s the one I believe. The proponents of the sub theory cited a photograph taken during the attack. There is a whitecap and shadow vaguely in the shape of a sub pointing towards the battleships. The photo was grainy, they did an un-scientifically controlled “experiment” via re-enactment, and concluded nothing other than "well, maybe, in typical History-channel fence-sitting.
I lost my faith in the History Channel when they started showing more and more UFO and ghost-“sighting” shows. This is history?
For the mini-sub, I’m sure there’s information about it online, though I believe the information they had on the example at Pearl Harbor was fairly sketchy as well.
The conventional thinking is that ghosts are fiction. But the shows are not about ghost fiction, nor are they about ghost lore. They pretend to be in haunted places yet never manage to see or record anything of substance.
Basically same for UFOs, but the definition of UFO allows for plenty of legitimate sightings of stuff that just can’t be identified. But little to no real evidence, hence more fiction.
Mostly I object to the presentation of “crap” nonsense alongside shows that are about factual events, without any disclaimers or admission that those other shows are not about factual events.
