Big deal. So some menial laborer from 1941 somehow survived an attack so he could go on to continue a life of ditch-digging for the next 70 years. Stop the presses.

You could say he earned his place on that tub.

xl5150: Big deal. So some menial laborer from 1941 somehow survived an attack so he could go on to continue a life of ditch-digging for the next 70 years. Stop the presses.

Quality ditches need quality labor.

/your troll-fu is weak

... Where did they bury the survivors?

xl5150: Big deal. So some menial laborer from 1941 somehow survived an attack so he could go on to continue a life of ditch-digging for the next 70 years. Stop the presses.

Let me guess. Did your grandparents get you crappy gifts this year?

gee I bet his wife feels so loved

xl5150 (ignored: Jackass)

Surely he was the crèmated de la crèmated.

I bet he still used the word jap to the very end

/ Ching chong

Calm Down You Spaz: I bet he still used the word jap to the very end

/ Ching chong

Ling long

It's dusty in here.

/Semper fi

Sad: that for 70 years, all that man could think about was the friends he lost aboard the Arizona.

Apparently, nothing else in the rest of his life could match what he had lost, and it would define him for the rest of his life.

Sadder: The rest of you poor shiats reading this on Christmas Day, who probably don't even have that.

Insane: Apparently in the 1940s, you could be a PFC by the time you were 16. Either that or the reporter dropped a digit somewhere.

Calm Down You Spaz: I bet he still used the word jap to the very end

/ Ching chong

Isn't nip more offensive? I have bugs bunny cartoons from back then and holy hell they're pretty racist

Calm Down You Spaz: I bet he still used the word jap to the very end

/ Ching chong

Not to excuse even mild racism but it was a very different time and most of the people that still use that word don't mean it in a derogatory sense anymore, it's just what they've said their entire lives and don't think anything of it anymore. Even if they do still harbor resentment I suppose it's remotely understandable after you've seen your buddies getting mowed down by a specific racial group and to have witnessed the other atrocities committed in that conflict.

/CSB, my grandfather was on the Bunker Hill when it was hit by the Kamikaze attacks. He spoke of it exactly once and he still had some very strong feelings about the Japanese people, after what he had experienced I wouldn't think I could change his mind even if he was the great man that he was.

Ishidan: Sad: that for 70 years, all that man could think about was the friends he lost aboard the Arizona.

Apparently, nothing else in the rest of his life could match what he had lost, and it would define him for the rest of his life.

Sadder: The rest of you poor shiats reading this on Christmas Day, who probably don't even have that.

It's not Christmas here.

Ishidan: Sad: that for 70 years, all that man could think about was the friends he lost aboard the Arizona.

Apparently, nothing else in the rest of his life could match what he had lost, and it would define him for the rest of his life.

Sadder: The rest of you poor shiats reading this on Christmas Day, who probably don't even have that.

Insane: Apparently in the 1940s, you could be a PFC by the time you were 16. Either that or the reporter dropped a digit somewhere.

he died in 2002

AverageAmericanGuy: It's not Christmas here.
What? Oh yeah, time zones. So, not even dawn on the day after Christmas Day, then? How's that working out for you?

Ishidan: AverageAmericanGuy: It's not Christmas here.
What? Oh yeah, time zones. So, not even dawn on the day after Christmas Day, then? How's that working out for you?

It's actually the afternoon. Work sucks, that's no doubt, though.

Ctown34: he died in 2002
What? Oh, I see it, in the photo caption. Good catch! That makes more sense.

AverageAmericanGuy: It's actually the afternoon. Work sucks, that's no doubt, though.

Yup. Boxing Day-less heathens!

jingks: AverageAmericanGuy: It's actually the afternoon. Work sucks, that's no doubt, though.

Yup. Boxing Day-less heathens!

It's okay. They make me work, but I play joke.

AverageAmericanGuy: It's actually the afternoon. Work sucks, that's no doubt, though.
...where's "here"?

xl5150: Big deal. So some menial laborer from 1941 somehow survived an attack so he could go on to continue a life of ditch-digging for the next 70 years. Stop the presses.

-10/10. You are trying too hard, and as such you would normally get 0/10. But, you are also trolling a story about a dead veteran, that gets you -5 points. The fact that you are a douche gets you another -5. Next time try not to be so blatant about it. Think before you troll and you will get a better score.

The Gentleman Caller: xl5150: Big deal. So some menial laborer from 1941 somehow survived an attack so he could go on to continue a life of ditch-digging for the next 70 years. Stop the presses.

Let me guess. Did your grandparents get you crappy gifts this year?

Nah, his grandparents shoveled shiat in Louisiana.

Thank you, sir.

I was privileged to know a PH survivor, and his story about the attack were vivid and amazing. I consider it an honor that he was willing to share with my dad and I his story. He hated the Japanese for a long time, but towards the end of his life, his hatred softened quite a bit.

Stretch_8: Thank you, sir.

I was privileged to know a PH survivor, and his story about the attack were vivid and amazing. I consider it an honor that he was willing to share with my dad and I his story. He hated the Japanese for a long time, but towards the end of his life, his hatred softened quite a bit.

I can't even imagine the horror of being a firsthand witness to Pearl Harbor.

Ben Affleck is reportedly terrible in it.

They put those remote operated tiny subs with cameras in the Titanic. Why don't they do that with the Arizona? Is it because it's a military tomb?

oh, here we go (new window)

Pointy Tail of Satan: A friend of mine once asked me why a battleship was carrying a load of "magazines".

/I need more enlightened friends.

I hope you told him the truth. Long months at sea makes a man long for companionship. If not for those magazines and wadding tissue, the seamen would all turn gay.

Britney Spear's Speculum: oh, here we go (new window)

So the very very very first thing they inspect with their ROV is the women's bathroom.

neuroflare: Calm Down You Spaz: I bet he still used the word jap to the very end

/ Ching chong

Isn't nip more offensive? I have bugs bunny cartoons from back then and holy hell they're pretty racist

Odd either way.. Nip is for Nipponese, Jap for Japanese. Lot less ill-sourced as something like zipperhead, slope, etc.

I took this screen last year I think.

/Still mad at Goole for doing nothing that day. ಠ_ಠ

bhcompy: neuroflare: Calm Down You Spaz: I bet he still used the word jap to the very end

/ Ching chong

Isn't nip more offensive? I have bugs bunny cartoons from back then and holy hell they're pretty racist

Odd either way.. Nip is for Nipponese, Jap for Japanese. Lot less ill-sourced as something like zipperhead, slope, etc.


Zipperhead? I thought we agreed that was for Koreans only.... didn't you get the memo?

/I Keed!
//Love the Koreans
///This post displayed on a Samsung Monitor

Allen262: /Still mad at Goole for doing nothing that day. ಠ_ಠ

They're inconsistent with their doodles.

I understand doing things science and computer technology related, but the world cup final?

Britney Spear's Speculum: Allen262: /Still mad at Goole for doing nothing that day. ಠ_ಠ

They're inconsistent with their doodles.

I understand doing things science and computer technology related, but the world cup final?

I know. They could have done some thing/any thing. Even a small note on the page but there was nothing...

Pointy Tail of Satan: What they really need to do to build a coffer dam around the Arizona, slowly drain it, remove the oil, then flood it again. The ship is an eco time bomb.

Mind you, it's also full of rotting 16" shells and cordite. What a nightmare that would be.

An eco timebomb that is politically off limits until the last person that remembers WW2 dies.

Allen262: I know. They could have done some thing/any thing. Even a small note on the page but there was nothing...

It's not like it was the 70th anniversary or anything.

Calm Down You Spaz: I bet he still used the word jap to the very end

/ Ching chong

Mom hated every asian there was. No use telling her my 3D teacher was a fifth gen american, just didn't compute.

Marcintosh: Calm Down You Spaz: I bet he still used the word jap to the very end

/ Ching chong

Mom hated every asian there was. No use telling her my 3D teacher was a fifth gen american, just didn't compute.

She hates every Asian she sees. From ching chong A to ching chong Z.