American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

Today there are still some surviors from Pearl Harbor that are going to be at the Arizona Memorial Today. Here's to the Greatest Generation <SALUTE>


Respectfully,
Maj. Gen. Gery Bastiani
II Corps, 3rd Div. Tarheel Division
AotM CSA

"If there is a shell or bullet over there destined for us, it will find us" - General James Longstreet

My grandfather was at Hickam Field that morning...he won't be in Hawaii, but he is still with us today.

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LGen. Hamilton
II Corps
ANV, CSA

Hey Rich,
My dad whose not with me anymore was at Ford Island, and then later on during the Battle of Leyette Gulf was on the Destoryer USS Johnston and after it was sunk spent 4 or 5 days in the water before they were found and rescued. Have an Uncle thats still living and served he on several subs during the war.

Respectfully,
Maj. Gen. Gery Bastiani
II Corps, 3rd Div. Tarheel Division
AotM CSA

"If there is a shell or bullet over there destined for us, it will find us" - General James Longstreet

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<b><font color="gold">Ernie Sands
General, Commanding, Army of Ohio

ACWGC Cabinet Member
ACWGC Records Site Administrator
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SALUTE!

GEN. Tony Malone
Commander Army of Mississippi
"Do your duty in all things, You can never do more, You should never wish to do less".

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Lt. Charles Babb
6th Brigade,3rd Division
XXIII Corps
Army of the Ohio

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Lt.General Dale Lastowicka
VIII Corps
Army of the Shenandoah

Col. Quick Suh,

Maybe General Laub can get his boatswain pipe out and play Taps.

Respectfully,
Maj. Gen. Gery Bastiani
II Corps, 3rd Div. Tarheel Division
AotM CSA

"If there is a shell or bullet over there destined for us, it will find us" - General James Longstreet

My 17-year old father was supposed to be at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, but he was diagnosed as having the mumps [!] during his pre-sailing checkup in San Diego several weeks before. He was released from the hospital on December 7th, finally arriving at Pearl Harbor on December 9th. When his plane began its descent to the field, all on board were told to close their windows and leave them closed until they landed. The following day, and for six days thereafter, my father's company was detailed to clear wreckage from the piers surrounding the harbor. My father told me that for those six days he had the best (or 'worst') view of the historic destruction one could want.

Later in the war, while serving in the south Pacific as a tailgunner on a sub-chaser plane, my father was the sole-survivor in a crash at sea. Forty years later, while in a check-out line in a supermarket with my mother, he impulsively purchased some cheap WWII newsreel footage tapes (the 3 for five dollar types) and put them aside on a shelf. Several months later, bored after dinner, he finally put on one of those tapes, and half-way through the camera crew toured a hospital and there from the waist up, sitting in bed recuperating from his injuries, was my father in a ten-second closeup! No mistaking the identity. Dad told me he never knew he had been photographed in the hospital, and had no warning that forty years later he would be staring at a young himself! That's some coincidence!

Sincerely,
Brig Gen Dwight McBride
V Corps/AOP/USA

Salute!

Being stationed at Pearl Harbor for 4 years, I saw the ceremonies each December, including the 50th anniversary of the attack with Pres. HW Bush and the USS Missouri (now a fixture on battleship row).


General Jeff Laub
Union Chief of the Army
ACWGC Cabinet Member
http://www.geocities.com/laubster22/UnionHQ/

Dwight
Great story!!! Your father really got to see an amazing chunk of History, and then to star in his own news reel!![:)][:D][:p]

Colonel Tony Best
Army of Georgia

A prayer for your fathers and all the shipmates of all of the sailors who have ever sailed and lost their lives, and for all the others from the armed forces and civilians who also lost their lives for what so many people take for granted today, and seemingly could care less. <b><font color="blue">SALUTE!!</font id="blue"></b>

Brigadier General
Tom Ciampa

Commanding Officer
1st Cav Division
XIV Corps, AoC
Games: TS/BG: AN, BR, CH, GB, SH - HPS: AT, CTH, GB, OZK, SH, VK

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Being stationed at Pearl Harbor for 4 years, I saw the ceremonies each December, including the 50th anniversary of the attack with Pres. HW Bush and the USS Missouri (now a fixture on battleship row).
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I was stationed there from '92 - '95 aboard DD-984 USS Leftwich, so before Missouri arrived, but still - visiting the Arizona Memorial and the remains of some of the ships still on the bottom certainly stirs you deeply.


LGen. Hamilton
II Corps
ANV, CSA

I get a bunch of RSS news feeds from the New York Times and ABC news, etc.

The FIRST Pearl Harbor Day story was posted on the 7th at 3:15pm by ABC News.

The morning shows were all dominated by really terrible and awful news like the gunman in Nebraska, etc. Not a single mention of a very powerful and uplifting thing to honor American veterans from WWII and to take a moment to remember that we have men still making sacrifices for our country today.

It was very disappointing.

Very interesting tales that everyone has shared from their families. Thank you for sharing.

Hey Rich,
ya'll are a Tin Can Sailor. My dad spent his whole career as a Tin Can Sailor, he retired in 1959 as a Chief Torpedomens mate. Myself I served from 71 to 97 as a diggy dirt sailor "Seabee". Every time we'd go on deployment out in the Pacific we'd always land at Hickman Field to refuel the plane. They aways flew us on Air Force C-141's, except one time we flew out of Barber Point,HI. to Vietnam on a Navy C-118 and Island hopped across the Pacific. Got to see Wake Island on that trip. Same here Mr. Sparty, not much was mentioned here about Pearl Harbor either.

Respectfully,
Maj. Gen. Gery Bastiani
II Corps, 3rd Div. Tarheel Division
AotM CSA

"If there is a shell or bullet over there destined for us, it will find us" - General James Longstreet