Sunday, December 08, 2024

A Christmas Memory (1966 TV Movie): Starring Geraldine Page, with Truman Capote narrating: See It at the WEJB/NSU Theater, Complete, Free, and Without Commercial Interruptions


A Christmas Memory (1966 TV Movie): Starring Geraldine Page, with Truman Capote narrating

I saw this on TV when I was eight years old, and I still remember quite a bit of it, especially the two protagonists getting drunk while making Aunt Sook’s annual fruitcake, and the casual cruelty of Sook’s well-to-do sister. I have not yet taken the time to view this again, beyond determining that the sound and visual quality are both poor. It was recorded off the TV with a primitive device, and, as the man who posted it at youtube (whom I thank), has never been put out on vhs, dvd, or blu-ray.

Truman Capote was, in his day, America’s greatest short story writer, which is not backhanded praise. Time was, the short story was America’s gift to the world. The problem, however, was that you couldn’t make a living out of writing short stories. And so, writers would pad out short stories into books, “novels.”

(Hemingway went down a different path: At a young age, after publishing a collection of short stories—In Our Time—he wrote bestselling novels which were turned into big-budget prestige pictures starring the likes of Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. However, Hollywood people also read “Papa’s” short stories, and saw such magic in them that they turned them into big-time pictures, sometimes even—in the case of The Killers, in 1946—masterpieces.)

Capote, to my knowledge, did not write padded out short stories, yet still managed to make money off of intensely moving short stories, sometimes with protagonists which were female alter egos of the flamboyantly effeminate homosexual Capote, e.g., “Like Children on Their Birthdays.” His short story collections became bestsellers, and he got deals for theatrical and tv movies, most famously for his “novella,” first published by The New Yorker’s editor, William Shawn, in 1958, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and then turned into an Oscar-winning 1961 movie starring Audrey Hepburn as a high-priced prostitute named Holly Golightly, by Blake Edwards, George Axelrod, Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer.

However, Breakfast at Tiffany’s was, ultimately, a literary prank on Capote’s part (more anon). He was looking to get out of the heart-tugging short story business, and get into a sort of tough journalism. The following year, when he saw a brief item on the slaughter of four members of a Kansas farm family, the Klutters, he would see his in. Eventually, he would write the best-selling “new journalism” reports and book, In Cold Blood, which would lead to a successful, multi-Oscar-nominated, 1967 movie written, directed, and produced by Richard Brooks, and starring Scott Wilson and future murderer Robert Blake as the killers.

But this story, A Christmas Memory, was Capote at his peak.

Its star, Geraldine Page (1924-1987), who was every bit as eccentric as Capote, was one of the world’s great actresses, and was at home on the stage, her original home, the silver screen, the small screen, and the radio. On Broadway, she was nominated for four Tonys, but never won. On TV, she was nominated for three Emmys, winning two, both for Truman Capote stories—for this, and for The Thanksgiving Visitor (1968). And though she was not at home on the silver screen, she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, opposite the big cowboy, in her first picture, John Farrow’s Western, Hondo (1953) (in spite of the Academy’s contempt for moviedom’s greatest and most profitable genre), and would ultimately be up for eight Oscars, four each for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, eventually winning a last hurrah Oscar for Best Actress for the Horton Foote story, A Trip to Bountiful (1985), about an old woman who makes a bus trip for a last visit to her hometown.






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"Pete Hegseth calls whistleblower report an 'email from a disgruntled employee'"

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"breaking news: 'Pete Hegseth calls whistleblower report an 'email from a disgruntled employee'"





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"a father’s tireless search for his son has ended in tijuana, 5 1/2 years later...."

By R.C.
saturday, december 7, 2024 at 02:12:54 p.m. est

"a father's tireless search for his son has ended in tijuana, 5 1/2 years later. 'We did it. Erick Carrillo has been located,' Eddy Carrillo said friday. 'it's not the way we want it, we wanted him to be alive, but only God knows.' his son's remains were...

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/12/07/father-finds-u-s-citizen-sons-remains-in-tijuana-after-more-than-five-year-search/



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neocon political saboteur, Bill Kristol, on Trump's victory: "the American people have made a disastrous choice; and they have done so decisively, and with their eyes wide open"

By N.S. (full disclosure: I freelanced for Kristol during the late 1990s.)
"It's hard to imagine a worse outcome...."

"And Trump was running against a competent candidate who ran a good campaign to the center and bested him in a debate, with a strong economy."

Who was this "competent candidate..."?


from: Bill Kristol - the bulwark <thebulwark+morningshots@substack.com>
to: "add1dda@aol.com" <add1dda@aol.com>
sent: wednesday, november 6, 2024 at 09:33:59 a.m. est

"what will Trump's win mean"

"what happened and what comes next.­"

"what will Trump's win mean"

What happened and what comes next.

By William Kristol
nov 6

Well, here we go again. Happy Wednesday.

Donald Trump points to supporters with Melania Trump during an election night event at the palm beach convention center on november 06, 2024 in west palm beach, florida.

The People's Choice

by William Kristol

"the American people have made a disastrous choice. and they have done so decisively, and with their eyes wide open.

Donald J. Trump will be our next president, elected with a majority of the popular vote, likely winning both more votes and more states than he did in his two previous elections. After everything—after his chaotic presidency, after January 6th, after the last year in which the mask was increasingly off, and no attempt was made to hide the extremism of the agenda or the ugliness of the appeal—the American people liked what they saw. At a minimum, they were willing to accept what they saw.

"and Trump was running against a competent candidate who ran a good campaign to the center and bested him in a debate, with a strong economy. Yet Trump prevailed, pulling off one of the most remarkable comebacks in American political history. Trump boasted last night, "We've achieved the most incredible political thing," and he's not altogether wrong.

Certainly, even before he once again assumes the reins of power, Trump has cemented his status as the most consequential American politician of this century.

And when he assumes the reins of power, he'll start off as a powerful and emboldened president. He'll have extraordinary momentum from his victory. He'll be able to claim a mandate for an agenda that the public has approved. He'll have willing apparatchiks and politicians at his disposal, under the guidance of JD Vance and Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson and Stephen Miller, eager to help him advance that agenda. He'll have a compliant Republican majority in the Senate. And it looks as if Republicans may narrowly hold the House.

It's hard to imagine a worse outcome.

If you think, as I do, that Trump's agenda could do great damage to the country and to the world, if you think of deportations of immigrants at home and the betrayal of brave Ukrainians abroad and you shudder, if you think that turning our health policy over to Robert Kennedy Jr. will cause real harm, you're right to feel real foreboding for the future.

And of course there is no guarantee that the American people will turn against Trump and his agenda. They knew fully well who it was they were choosing this time. Their support may well be more stubborn than one would like. It certainly has been over the last four years.

So: We can lament our situation. We can analyze how we got here. We can try to learn lessons from what has happened. We have to do all these things.

But we can't only do those things. As Churchill put it: "In Defeat: Defiance." We'll have to keep our nerve and our principles against all the pressure to abandon them. We'll have to fight politically and to resist lawfully. We'll have to do our best to limit the damage from Trump. And we'll have to lay the groundwork for future recovery.

To do all this, we'll have to constitute a strong opposition and a loyal opposition, loyal to the Declaration and the Constitution, loyal to the past achievements and future promise of this nation, loyal to what America has been and should be.

And we'll have to have the fortitude to say, 'Yes, at times a majority of the American people can be wrong.' That they were wrong on November 5, 2024. That vox populi is not vox Dei.

I've sometimes quoted John McCain's wonderful comment, something he used to say with deadpan irony: It's always darkest . . . before it turns pitch black.

But the real McCain was cheerful about life and hopeful about America.

So as I write this before dawn Wednesday morning, and as I contemplate the dark and difficult period ahead, I'll instead invoke, as he would in this circumstance, the original sentiment that he was using as his foil. As the mid-nineteenth century Irish writer Samuel Lover remarked:

There is a beautiful saying amongst the Irish peasantry to inspire hope under adverse circumstances: "Remember," they say, "that the darkest hour of all, is the hour before day."

"Hope under adverse circumstances." That's what we need. Hope followed by thought and action, all to help bring about a new day for a great nation which has, for now, made a terrible mistake.





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Saturday, December 07, 2024

"2 shot dead in prince George's county"

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
saturday, december 7, 2024 at 07:10:19 p.m. est

https://wjla.com/news/local/two-men-shot-dead-shooting-prince-georges-county-police-department-investigation-surrey-square-lane-officer-gunshot-wounds-life-threatening-injuries-hospital-dc-maryland-virginia-dmv

"2 shot dead in prince George's county, officials say"

https://wjla.com/news/local/two-men-shot-dead-shooting-prince-georges-county-police-department-investigation-surrey-square-lane-officer-gunshot-wounds-life-threatening-injuries-hospital-dc-maryland-virginia-dmv



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"breaking: nycpd releases new photos of unitedhealthcare ceo Brian Thompson's alleged assassin"

By N.S.

"breaking: nypd releases new photos of unitedhealthcare ceo Brian Thompson's alleged assassin"

"the suspect is shown looking directly in to a camera as he apparently peers through a divider window to talk to the driver in one photo."

https://nypost.com/2024/12/07/us-news/united-healthcare-ceo-brian-thompsons-alleged-assassin-seen-in-new-photos-nypd/



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"more than 100 million fully jabbed Americans now suffer from irreversible heart damage"

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
saturday, december 7, 2024 at 09:38:41 p.m. est

"more than 100 million fully jabbed Americans now suffer from irreversible heart damage: dr. Thomas Levy"

https://naturalnews.com/2024-12-06-100-million-fully-vaccinated-americans-heart-damage.html



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"united healthcare ceo was supposed to testify against Nancy Pelosi in insider trading case"

"united healthcare ceo was supposed to testify against Nancy Pelosi in insider trading case" https://gab.com/AmericaFirstPatriot17/posts/113613100759595348 Nancy Pelosi is worth almost $200 million! By the way, have you finally figured out why Trump chose Elon Musk? It's because Musk was hired to be a white hat hacker. Why do you think Musk's new AI cluster was stood up so quickly? https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/first-in-depth-look-at-elon-musks-100-000-gpu-ai-cluster-xai-colossus-reveals-its-secrets
YouTuber ServeTheHome was granted an inside look at Supermicro's side of the xAI Colossus supercluster. The 100,000 GPU server is operational thanks to simple-to-deploy systems and thousands of ...
www.tomshardware.com
To determine flight trajectories?

Nope.

For hacking and cracking.

https://yandex.com/search?text=Dominion+voting+mahcines+links+to+the+Democratic+Party&lr=21772
Dominion machines' data was allegedly extricated via satellite uplinks to a data farm in Germany.



This is where Space Force comes in to play.

Trump put Space Force in charge of intelligence gathering.
Intelligent search from Bing makes it easier to quickly find what you're looking for and rewards you.
www.bing.com
Who better to hack and crack enemies, both foreign and domestic, than Musk and your own intelligence agency that you created and you control?

https://yandex.com/search?text=Dominion+voting+machines+links+to+the+Democratic+Party&lr=21772&p=1

https://nationalfile.com/even-democrats-investigated-pelosi-linked-dominion-voting-for-bad-security-and-chinese-parts/
Even Democrats harshly investigated Dominion Voting Systems for its well-documented lack of security and for using Chinese parts. Nancy Pelosi-linked Dominion Voting Systems is under harsh condemnation from President Donald Trump and his supporters after reported vote-counting malfunctions in many of the key states. President Trump cited data reported by OANN's Chanel Rion to state […]
nationalfile.com



I betcha the shooter in the United Healthcare case is Antifa from Atlanta.

Bet on it.
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watch: cop-hating ny criminal general Letitia James announces investigation into officer-involved shooting – footage shows man wanted for stabbing charging officers with knife before they shot him (graphic video)

By Prince George's Ex-Pat
saturday, december 7, 2024 at 10:51:19 p.m. est

"watch: cop-hating ny attorney general Letitia James announces investigation into officer-involved shooting – footage shows man wanted for stabbing charging officers with knife before being shot (graphic video)"

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/watch-cop-hating-ny-attorney-general-letitia-james/

Ali Ali?

Ali to the second power?

Ali squared?



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mudshark claims she was molested by mass murderer Sean Combs, alias "puff daddy," alias "p. diddy," alias "diddy"

By "W"
saturday, december 7, 2024 at 09:07:39 a.m. est

mudshark claims she was molested by diddy

mudsharking can have consequences.

N.S.: "Molested"? What is that even supposed to mean?

https://nypost.com/2024/12/07/us-news/sean-diddy-combs-sexual-assault-accuser-revealed-to-be-as-nhl-star-evander-kane-ex-wife-anna-kane/





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Fetterman finds sufficient brain power and integrity to admit that the prosecution of Trump was crooked

By Jerry PDX
thursday, december 5, 2024 at 6:42:00 p.m. est

Fetterman admits that the prosecution of Trump was crooked:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/fetterman-says-trump-case-new-york-politically-motivated-calls-pardon-the-view

Do we really need a brain-damaged democrat to tell us something we already know? No, not really.

Fetterman also thinks the prosecution of Hunter Biden was politically motivated. Probably so. If not for politics, it probably never would have happened, but there is still a difference. Not paying over a million in taxes is a prosecutable offense, and so is the gun charge. The Stormy Daniels “hush money” case was a fabricated charge.

Fetterman also seemed to have missed, or is ignoring, the Biden family foreign influence peddling scheme. Maybe that stroked-out brain of his can’t perceive the difference between real crime and a frame-up.

I’d be a lot more impressed if he had pointed out that Bragg is a black racist with power who took action against Trump because he’s a rich, successful, White man.


By Grand Rapids Anonymous
thursday, december 5, 2024 at 8:57:00 p.m. est

The bidens are politicians; Both bidens’ crimes were committed while old man biden was holding the office of vice-president or president—you’re damn right it’s political—as it should be. He’s lucky it WAS political—or he’d be in prison for fraud, embezzlement, etc., like a common felon.

--GRA



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Ode to Jordan Neely

By Henry Jacquarious Longfelon
saturday, december 7, 2024 at 10:02:00 p.m. est

Ode to Jordan Neely

O troubled transit troubadour
Now you are no more,
Can’t breathe, can’t breathe,
Forevermore.
Trayvoned not by a White hispanic’s gun,
But by the noosey hands of a White White,
A very very White White,
So on the clouds you took flight,
To neverland in the sky,
Michael Jackson says, “This my guy!”
Thou comically cosmically trafficked child.

- Henry Jacquarious Longfelon


Collegiate inquiries welcome. No speaking fee over four figures refused.

N.S.: To my knowledge, Henry Jacquarious Longfelon is not a pseudonym of the equally pseudonymous crime writer and comedian, Grand Rapids Anonymous, whom I am honored to have in my stable of brilliant, courageous contributors. As I have repeatedly underscored, GRA’s influence just grows and grows.



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fake veep Kamala Harris: “There’s no question that our immigration system is broken” (brief, vacuous video)


fake veep Kamala Harris: “There’s no question that our immigration system is broken.”
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“Harris: ‘There’s no question that our immigration system is broken.”

What on Earth does she mean? How is it “broken”? That’s just a slogan she’s mindlessly repeating.



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William Kirk: "the mockery of the sham that is the Daniel Penny trial" (succinct video)

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17,716 dec 6, 2024

"as if the sham that is the Daniel Penny case was not already enough, along comes a new chapter in legal bufoonary, which is today's decision by the trial court to dismiss count i, rather than declare a mistrial after the jury could not reach a verdict. Washington gun law president, William Kirk, discusses the horrible ruling by the court today and how this is clearly designed to reach the verdict that this court and prosecutor wants. so learn more today and arm yourself with education."





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Carol M. Swain: "Things I will never believe"

By N.S.



"3. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris won 74 million legitimate votes in 2024. #Election2024

"4. California voters ALWAYS choose Democrat candidates in federal elections where results take weeks to count."



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jury intimidation, again: black nazis of blm call for more riots, if American hero Daniel Penny isn't judicially lynched (brief video, but it will seem interminable)

Re-posted ny N.S.





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Dramatic news unearthed almost 160 years after the fact, regarding Abraham Lincoln’s relationship to Ulysses S. Grant!

By Nicholas Stix

It seems that, due to anonymous allegations that General Grant had a drinking problem, President Lincoln cashiered him as commanding general of the Federal army.

And that’s why the North lost the War.



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"nbc’s Kristen Welker springs Hegseth drinking smear on Trump, he shuts her down with class"

By N.S.

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/12/07/nbcs-kristen-welker-springs-hegseth-drinking-smear-on-trump-he-shuts-her-down-with-class-1508041/



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TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Fred Zinnemann’s Act of Violence (1949) with Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter and Berry Kroeger


TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Fred Zinnemann’s Act of Violence (1949) with Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter and Berry Kroeger.  

  By David in TN
friday, december 6, 2024 at 6:23:00 p.m. est

TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Fred Zinnemann’s Act of Violence (1949) with Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter and Berry Kroeger.

Heflin, a respected war veteran, has a dark secret. While a prisoner in a German POW camp, he betrayed an escape attempt, believing (falsely) that it would save lives. Of the escapees, Ryan was the only survivor and now he’s out for revenge.

Act of Violence has been on Noir Alley before, maybe twice.

TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Fred Zinnemann’s Act of Violence (1949) with Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter and Berry Kroeger By David in TN
Friday, May 28, 2021 at 10:30:00 A.M. EDT

TCM’s Film Noir of the Week Saturday Night-Sunday Morning at Midnight and 10 a.m. ET is Fred Zinnemann’s Act of Violence (1949) with Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter and Berry Kroeger.

Film Noir Guide: “Heflin, a war veteran, and pillar of the community, has a dark secret. While a prisoner in a German P.O.W. camp, he betrayed his men’s escape plans. Believing he would be saving lives, he instead caused his friends to be bayoneted by German soldiers and left for dead. Of the eleven escapees, only the disabled Ryan has survived and now he’s out for revenge.

“Heflin’s wife (Leigh), though shocked by her husband’s past, stands by her man, and Ryan’s girl (Thaxter) tries in vain to convince hers to give up his deadly mission.

“Astor is excellent as the whore with a heart who, in a misguided attempt to help Heflin, unwittingly hooks him up with a vicious hit man (Kroeger).

“Heflin gives a bravura performance as the guilt-ridden veteran who seeks redemption in a final act of atonement, and Ryan is convincingly sinister as the limping, avenging angel.

“A film noir classic.”

David in TN: Eddie Muller picked Act of Violence for Memorial Day Weekend. In last week’s outro, he called it a perfect noir.

 

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reconquista media operative: "Biden should pardon millions of undocumented immigrants — before Trump gets his hands on them"

By A Texas Reader
saturday, december 7, 2024 at 02:20:39 p.m. est

"Biden should pardon millions of undocumented immigrants — before Trump gets his hands on them"

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/12/06/biden-should-pardon-millions-of-undocumented-immigrants-before-trump-gets-his-hands-on-them/

Ruben Navarette still up to no good.

I wrote to him many years ago.

This was when he still wrote for The Democratic Marxist News (a/k/a The Dallas Morning News).

He replied to me with a snotty tone.

his beloved wetbacks should return to asia.

After all, every last indigenous (sic) in the New World is an asian.

Just channel the late David Yeagley.

He considered himself to be a mongol.

I know this, as I communicated with him a few times over the years.



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BREAKING NEWS: The Japs Have Attacked Pearl Harbor! “December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy”: Remembering the Japanese Sneak Attack on Pearl Harbor; in Blitzkrieg, Japs also Attacked Hong Kong, Guam, the Philippine Islands and Wake Island (Massive Photoessay, Documents, and Articles!)


The USS Arizona, on December 7, 1941

New material, above and below


“The Pacific Strategy, 1941-1944.”

Saturday, December 07, 2019



“December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy”: Remembering the Japanese Sneak Attack on Pearl Harbor (Massive Photoessay, Documents, and Articles)

By Nicholas Stix




Pearl Harbor Day, 2014 (Photoessay)

Remembering Pearl Harbor

Those who cannot remember and prize America’s past are condemned to be bums.

  

 

USS Arizona (BB-39) sunk and burning furiously, 7 December 1941. Her forward magazines had exploded when she was hit by a Japanese bomb. At left, men on the stern of USS Tennessee (BB-43) are playing fire hoses on the water to force burning oil away from their ship

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, National Archives collection.


 AP: "In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo, the battleship USS Arizona belches smoke as it topples over into the sea during a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Wednesday is the 70th anniversary of the attack that brought the United States into World War II."
 


USS Utah (AG-16): Capsizing off Ford Island, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, after being torpedoed by Japanese aircraft. Photographed from USS Tangier (AV-8), which was moored astern of Utah. Note colors half-raised over fantail, boats nearby, and sheds covering Utah’s after guns.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, National Archives collection.



Sailors in a motor launch rescue a survivor from the water alongside the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48) during or shortly after the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor. USS Tennessee (BB-43) is inboard of the sunken battleship. Note extensive distortion of West Virginia’s lower midships superstructure, caused by torpedoes that exploded below that location. Also note 5"/25 gun, still partially covered with canvas, boat crane swung outboard and empty boat cradles near the smokestacks, and base of radar antenna atop West Virginia’s foremast.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, National Archives collection.

By Nicholas Stix
December 7, 2011

(Reprinted from the 2009 commemoration, plus 20 photographs from U.S. National Archives shot during and after the sneak attack, an anonymous essay on the devastation, and a new AP article.)
"December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy." (Listen to the recording here.)

That’s how FDR reacted to the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, which claimed over 3,500 casualties: 2,335 servicemen killed, 68 civilians killed, and 1,178 wounded, half the Pacific Fleet, and 188 fighter planes on the ground. (Back then, as in my childhood during the War in Vietnam, we didn’t use the euphemism “injured,” as if someone had gotten hurt in an accident.)

 

"The moment the magazine exploded on the destroyer USS Shaw…"/AP

 

Prior to 911, Pearl Harbor was the deadliest attack on American soil. Just because it’s now number two, is no reason to forget it. Indeed, there are very good reasons to never forget it: 1. The carnage itself bears remembering—those were American boys lost while serving their country, our country; 2. The fact that Pearl was a huge military base, yet was totally unprepared for the attack; and 3. The way America fought back.

 

Although at the time, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was by far the most leftwing president we had ever had, you will not find him shying away from giving offense to the enemy, or permitting enemy fronts to dictate war, propaganda, or domestic social policy, as both George W. Bush and the John Doe calling himself “Barack Obama” have done. We did not permit our enemies to immigrate into the United States, and give them legal privileges we do not even give our own patriotic citizens. We did not have a President who has openly expressed his loyalty to the enemy. Indeed, we called our enemies, “the Japs” and “the Gerries,” and ridiculed them relentlessly, the way one does when one is serious about winning, and interned thousands of their co-ethnics who were on American soil.

 

America cannot prosecute a war multiculturally and win, because the whole point of multiculturalism, as devised by racial socialists, is to make America unable to defend herself against enemies foreign and domestic, and thereby destroy her.

And so we have spectacles such as Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, who is more worried about the feelings of Moslem terrorists than about protecting his own men, and thus not only tolerating, but retaining and promoting, and thus encouraging murderous terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan.
 


Unlike the Japs on December 7, 1941, Hasan gave abundant warning of what he was about. But the Army variously ignored and censored the truth, and 14 people, including one unborn child died, so as not to offend Hasan’s delicate, Moslem terrorist sensibilities.

And still, the Army and Marine Corps prostrate themselves before our enemies. Army Colonel Scot Mackenzie censors the truth, when he writes that the Afghans have a “God-willing mentality.” Colonel, you know damned well, that that's an “Allah-willing” mentality.


But according to Time’s Mark Thompson, U.S. Marine Corps Captain Jason Moore goes

 

Colonel Mackenzie one better: He apologizes for our protecting our own men.

Joint U.S.-Afghan operations are plagued by mistrust, with the living quarters of allied and Afghan troops separated by walls, razor wire, guarded gates and machine-gun nests. “Currently, coalition forces eat, sleep and play in separate spaces from the people they are trying to train,” U.S. Marine Captain Jason Moore noted in a report earlier this year for the Corps’ Command and Staff College at Quantico, Va. In part, that’s because Taliban sympathizers in the Afghan military have shot and killed U.S. troops. “Intentional or not, it conveys a sense of distrust, hostility and disrespect to their hosts.”

 

They’re trying to kill us, but God—or is that “Allah”—forbid, we should offend their delicate, Moslem terrorist sensibilities.

And please remind me why we’re heading towards a tab of $1 trillion in Afghanistan alone, defending people who are literally shooting us in the back. If this country weren’t led by traitors, we would have long ago drummed Gen. Casey—who owes his present job to that great embracer of Islam, George W. Bush—out of the Army, and Capt. Moore out of the Marine Corps. Instead, Casey is on his way to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Moore is on his way to being a general officer, because disloyalty to America is the surest way up the military career ladder, these days.


 

One more thing—when reading the passages,

No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory….

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger,



Keep in mind that a “premeditated invasion” has been undertaken against America in the present day, and that “There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger.”

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FDR's Pearl Harbor Speech



Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives:

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

The United States was at peace with that nation, and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its Emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.

Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese Ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message.

And, while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack.



 

It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time the Japanese Government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.

Yesterday, the Japanese Government also launched an attack against Malaya.

Last night Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.

Last night Japanese forces attacked Guam.

Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.

Last night the Japanese attacked Wake Island.

And this morning the Japanese attacked Midway Island.



 

 

Japan has therefore undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.

As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense, that always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us.

No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory.
 

 

I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger.

With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph. So help us God.

I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.

Franklin D. Roosevelt - December 8, 1941

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(My thanks to the good folks at The History Place for publishing FDR's speech online. A tip 'o the hat, as well, to Diana West.)

 

 

Pearl Harbor

(I found this unsigned article, along with many of the pictures appearing in this presentation, at this Web site, whose anonymous proprietor I heartily thank.)


On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack against the U.S. Forces stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. By planning his attack on a Sunday, the Japanese commander Admiral Nagumo, hoped to catch the entire fleet in port. As luck would have it, the aircraft carriers and one of the battleships were not in port. (The USS Enterprise was returning from Wake Island, where it had just delivered some aircraft. The USS Lexington was ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the USS Saratoga and USS Colorado were undergoing repairs in the United States).


 

 

In spite of the latest intelligence reports about the missing aircraft carriers (his most important targets), Admiral Nagumo decided to continue the attack with his force of six carriers and 423 aircraft. At a range of 230 miles north of Oahu, he launched the first wave of a two-wave attack. Beginning at 0600 hours his first wave consisted of 183 fighters and torpedo bombers, which struck at the fleet in Pearl Harbor and the airfields in Hickam, Kaneohe, and Ewa. The second strike, launched at 0715 hours, consisted of 167 aircraft, which again struck at the same targets.



 

 

At 0753 hours the first wave consisting of 40 Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" torpedo bombers, 51 Aichi D3A1 "Val" dive bombers, 50 high altitude bombers and 43 Zeros struck airfields and Pearl Harbor within the next hour, the second wave arrived and continued the attack.
 



 

When it was over, the U.S. losses were:

Casualties

USA : 218 KIA, 364 WIA (WIA=Wounded in action).

USN: 2,008 KIA, 710 WIA.

USMC: 109 KIA, 69 WIA.

Civilians: 68 KIA, 35 WIA.

TOTAL: 2,403 KIA, 1,178 WIA.



Battleships

USS Arizona (BB-39): Total loss when a bomb hit her magazine.

USS Oklahoma (BB-37): Total loss when she capsized and sank in the harbor.

USS California (BB-44): Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.

USS West Virginia (BB-48): Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.

USS Nevada (BB-36): Beached to prevent sinking. Later repaired.

USS Pennsylvania (BB-38): Light damage.

USS Maryland (BB-46): Light damage.

USS Tennessee (BB-43): Light damage.

USS Utah (AG-16) (former battleship used as a target): Sunk.



Cruisers


USS New Orleans (CA-32): Light damage.

USS San Francisco (CA-38): Light damage.

USS Detroit (CL-8): Light damage.

USS Raleigh (CL-7): Heavily damaged, but repaired.

USS Helena (CL-50): Light damage.

USS Honolulu (CL-48): Light damage.



Destroyers

USS Downes (DD-375): Destroyed; parts salvaged.

USS Cassin (DD-372): Destroyed; parts salvaged.

USS Shaw (DD-373): Very heavy damage.

USS Helm (DD-388): Light damage.



Minelayer

USS Ogala (CM-4): Sunk, but later raised and repaired.



Seaplane Tender

USS Curtiss (AV-4): Severely damaged, but later repaired.



Repair Ship

USS Vestal (AR-4): Severely damaged but later repaired.



Harbor Tug

USS Sotoyomo (YT-9): Sunk but later raised and repaired.



Aircraft

188 [?] Aircraft destroyed (92 USN and 92 U.S Army Air Forces).

 

 

 

Pearl Harbor Attack Remembered at 70th Anniversary

December 7, 2011

 Associated Press

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – The Dec. 7, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor and those who lost their lives that day are being remembered Wednesday on the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack that brought the U.S. into World War II.

About 120 survivors will join Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, military leaders and civilians to observe a moment of silence in Pearl Harbor at 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time -- the moment the attack began seven decades ago.

About 3,000 people are expected to attend the event held each year at a site overlooking the sunken USS Arizona and the white memorial that straddles the battleship.

The Pearl Harbor-based guided missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon will render honors to the Arizona and blow its whistle at the start of a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m. -- the same time 70 years ago the first Japanese planes began to attack.

F-22 jets flown by the Hawaii National Guard are due to soar overhead in a missing man formation to finish the moment of silence.

Mal Middlesworth, a Marine veteran who was on the USS San Francisco during the bombing, will deliver the keynote address.

President Obama hailed veterans of the bombing in a statement proclaiming Wednesday "National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day."

"Their tenacity helped define the Greatest Generation and their valor fortified all who served during World War II. As a nation, we look to December 7, 1941, to draw strength from the example set by these patriots and to honor all who have sacrificed for our freedoms," he said.

Also this week, five ash scattering and interment ceremonies are being held for five survivors whose cremated remains are returning to Pearl Harbor after their deaths.

On Tuesday, an urn containing the ashes of Lee Soucy was placed on his battleship, the USS Utah, which is lying on its side near the place where it sank 70 years ago. The ashes of Vernon Olsen, who was on the Arizona during the attack, will be placed on his ship late Wednesday.

The U.S. lost 12 vessels that day, but the Arizona and the Utah are the only ones still sitting in the harbor. The ashes of three others are being scattered in the water in separate ceremonies this week.

Posted by Nicholas
11:37 P.M.



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jeigheff said...

The Japs eventually reaped what they sowed.

Friday, December 8, 2017 at 10:21:00 P.M. EST
jeigheff said...

My wife and I have watched HBO's "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific" together in the past. I'm blessed to have a wife that's interested in World War II and wants to know more, like me.

However, watching these shows made me sad, maybe even a little envious. It wasn't hard to figure out why. Our nation once seemed to know how to deal with her enemies. Now, I'm not so sure. Someone might correct me, but as far as I know, our military was never restrained by "rules of engagement" when it fought the Germans and Japanese. Our enemies bore the full brunt of our wrath and that of our allies, both militarily and politically.

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Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 10:22:00 P.M. EST at

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By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 11:05:00 P.M. EST

Today, on my local NBC affiliate, a 350 lb, black, weekend news anchor introduced the obligatory story about the commemoration of December 7th,1941. Obligatory, because these stations don’t really care about Pearl Harbor anymore—it’s fairly obvious.

Part of the video shown was footage of veterans still alive from that day (I assume) and gathered together in Hawaii—every one of them in wheelchairs and in severely declined health—all were white.

The camera moved slowly and captured the moment of white history, a time when we were great.
The report was over in 45 seconds—tops.

May today’s white people show the courage that those veterans exemplified 76 years ago. We’re going to need just as much determination—if not more—to save the country they fought for, almost 8 decades ago. Or did they fight wars in two theaters, just so today’s Muslims, blacks, and Mexicans could swallow up the territories they successfully defended—Europe and America—and accomplish that feat without the use of one tank or a single airplane bomber?

For me, it IS the only important question left to answer in my lifetime.

--GRA


By Anonymous

Friday, December 8, 2023 at 2:48:00 PM EST

"In spite of the latest intelligence reports about the missing aircraft carriers (his most important targets), Admiral Nagumo decided to continue the attack with his force of six carriers and 423 aircraft."

I can imagine that Nagumo after sailing his attack force as far as he did felt he no option other than to attack. Most of all take advantage of surprise.



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