[Ansteorra] OT, but not really...Current History...something to think about

[ke5zw at wt.net]

Hi....

Trivia note on this day in 1941....

The Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest award that can be bestowed
on an American military person was awarded more times on this one day (Dec
7, 1941) than any other day.

It was awarded 15 times.

Included in that list was the Captain of the USS Arizona which was sunk
when a Japanese 500 pound bomb struck her fore deck and drove into her
main magazine, setting it off with the now famous plum of black smoke as
caught on film by a Navy cameraman.

The Captain was Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh.

A person who has been awarded the CMH is the only time in which an officer
salutes a non-comm, even the generals salute a CMH awardee.

Also, from the people awarded, came the future names of a number of
warships that later went into history and one is still around today.

The USS Kidd is among those names and resides today at a berth in Baton
Rouge, La.

Hugg your WWII vet today, the Great Generation that is dying off at the
rate of 2000 per day.

My father is in that group and is 80.

Niklas




>> Owen Van Meter <ovanoff57 at clearwire.net> wrote:
>>  Does everyone remember what today is in history?
>>
>> Hint: 1941