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

[Lisa Sawyer]

My grandfather was a Pearl Harbor Survivor. He passed in September. The big
family mystery was how he actually "lost" his pinky finger. Over the
decades, he told many different stories. However, the one that is most
commonly believed is that he broke it playing baseball on Dec. 6. During the
attack and the following rescue efforts, he couldn't keep it splinted/taped.
He asked a doctor to go ahead and cut it off because that allowed him to
keep helping in less pain (sort of makes sense, I guess). Other stories were
that he got hit with either a bullet or a piece of shrapnel that took it
off. He was running around trying help get planes up in the air during the
attack.

Just a little something to make it personal,
Ysabeau

On Dec 7, 2007 11:23 AM, <ke5zw at wt.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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