80 Years After Pearl Harbor, Survivors Reflect On The Day That Changed History

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  • Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
  • It was a day that would live in infamy and change the course of history: 2,403 Americans were killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Now 80 years later, survivors gathered in Hawaii to commemorate that fateful day. NBC News' Kerry Sanders looks back on the history, and spoke to five survivors about what they endured.» Subscribe to NBC News: nbcnews.to/Subs...
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    80 Years After Pearl Harbor, Survivors Reflect On The Day That Changed History

Комментарии • 90

  • @rwilsbach9206
    @rwilsbach9206 2 года назад +49

    My Dad was a Pearl Harbor Survivor. He turned 18 a few weeks before the attack, lived to be 96. He never spoke much about his experiences until his later years. After he got involved with the local VFW chapter, he began speaking to school and community groups, proudly had a PHS license plate and wants his ashes to be buried at the Punchbowl cemetery in Hawaii.

  • @axlsg6511
    @axlsg6511 2 года назад +32

    All of them are over 98 years old.. OMG bless their hearts

    • @RetroRogue.
      @RetroRogue. 2 года назад +2

      It's crazy there are only a few left.

    • @roanmatthewcaritativo5685
      @roanmatthewcaritativo5685 2 года назад +4

      @@RetroRogue. there are still 200 to 300k ww2 veteran and a hundred left for pearl harbor survivors

  • @SunshinesART
    @SunshinesART 2 года назад +22

    My great grandfather served as a navy cook on the Maryland, and he always made sure his sailors had their own birthday cake, Which meant he would cook two or three a day, sometimes. He was there during Pearl Harbor. He said they were mad on his ship because the Oklahoma came and blocked their sea breeze and ocean view. However, that night when he hears the tapping of the sailors trapped from the Oklahoma having sunk, he said he felt so guilty about being upset about an old sea breeze. It changed him. He never came home to my great grandmother and his two little girls. They reunited when my grandmother was in her 40’s, and so I was able to spend a summer on his farm with him when I was 12. He still had the steel dishes from ship that he cooked in. He passed away on his beloved tractor, on a mountain in Portland Oregon, the same tractor I rode on with him as a young girl of twelve. Now my daughter and her husband and their family are stationed in Hawaii, and his great great great grandchildren are being raised on the beaches that saw so much horror. I just know he as at peace now. Thank you to these men for speaking out bc so many could never talk about it again.🇺🇸

  • @blakeh6250
    @blakeh6250 2 года назад +17

    I retired out the navy and my last duty was on a destroyer in pearl harbor, these guys are true heros, got to meet a couple while stationed there at reunions..

  • @karyherndon4266
    @karyherndon4266 2 года назад +18

    What patriots! 🇺🇸🎁Wonderful story. Thank you. Almost in tears. Yup, from southern Colorado. Merry Christmas veterans!!

  • @katsuooda7744
    @katsuooda7744 Год назад +5

    My grandfather is a Pearl harbor survivor, lived to be 89 years old died in 1992. He served on the U.S.S. Daede as a Boilermaker/Boiler repair man and fought in the battle at Okinawa as well

  • @landooliver2408
    @landooliver2408 2 года назад +8

    I went there. And tears came down

  • @RD-ue9wb
    @RD-ue9wb Год назад +7

    Thank you to these veterans, and all the veterans who are and have served to protect me and my fellow Americans. There truly are no words to convey my appreciation.

  • @user-jq8wr8ru2s
    @user-jq8wr8ru2s 2 года назад +10

    American heroes. Thank you for your service.

  • @RD-ue9wb
    @RD-ue9wb Год назад +7

    Thank you for this thorough and respectful interview. The questions that needed to be asked were asked and respect was conveyed throughout. Thank you again to these Veterans, and a thank you to Ralph above and beyond. As incredibly tough on the soul as this had to be on all these Men, I have to think it was a bit harder for him at times. I love you and thank you for your service, and I'm sorry that memories still continue from this dark and heavy period.

  • @Patty.29
    @Patty.29 2 года назад +4

    God Bless. My Dad's Age. Crew. Navy. Went in After Attack For Recovery Efforts. Thank You Soldiers. God Blessed. My Dad Would Of Been. 101yr. September. Same Age As My Dad. David. Thank you Soldiers.

  • @MB5rider81
    @MB5rider81 2 года назад +9

    I know I've been declared an enemy of the people, but this liberal veteran thanks you boys from the bottom of my heart.
    I was stationed at Pearl,. I've smelled the Arizona's blood. Heroes all.
    Thank you, boys..

  • @moctotnhat3028
    @moctotnhat3028 2 года назад +4

    Great segment. Thank you all, God bless those men

  • @dougpotosky4102
    @dougpotosky4102 Год назад +5

    We will never forget our Heroes!

  • @daren5666
    @daren5666 Год назад +4

    My Uncle Paul was a Pearl Harbor Survivor ! Philadelphia chapter of Pearl Harbor Survivors Association ! He was on an Ammunition Ship! I was fortunate to meet many members at the annual summer picnic held at my Uncle's home!

  • @AANLoveVintage
    @AANLoveVintage Год назад +4

    God bless all who perished and those who survived. You forever deserve our respect. Thank you all for your service and sacrifice.

  • @Castulos4
    @Castulos4 2 года назад +3

    Went two months ago. You must go. Truly that event made America One nation.

  • @miss.heatherr
    @miss.heatherr 2 года назад +4

    True America Patriots and heroes. God Bless you all and thank you for your service 🇺🇸❤️

  • @karyherndon4266
    @karyherndon4266 2 года назад +8

    Great ww2 video. My late father, A.Steven Herndon was a Ww2 veteran... abroad the USS Californian, after Pearl Harbor. He was a radio operator for four years. He loved it ...I believe! Awesome story, plus, it’s truly amazing and sadly true! Thank you.

  • @jthomas8340
    @jthomas8340 2 года назад +3

    Great segment. Thank you all

  • @dorthymcbride3384
    @dorthymcbride3384 Год назад +3

    Mahalo for remembering 🌄🌈🏝❤😪😇😥

  • @chadhines5804
    @chadhines5804 2 года назад +4

    God bless those men

  • @marthamartha3222
    @marthamartha3222 Год назад +1

    Wooooooow over a hundred years old 😳. This is amazing my respect 💓 to them ❤️. Thank you for your service 🙏.

  • @dorthymcbride3384
    @dorthymcbride3384 Год назад +4

    God bless you gentlemen for your service and commitment to give your lives to save us! ❤😪😇😎🎄🌈🏝🌄🎁

  • @Patty.29
    @Patty.29 2 года назад +2

    My Dad Had P.T.S.D BAD. Died At 58yrs. From. Ww2. God Bless these. HEROS.

  • @sinjhguddu4974
    @sinjhguddu4974 2 года назад +4

    This is very sobering! At 100? Here we are, fed up with living, while in our twenties, thirties? Kudos to these great people!

  • @2ampipeonthepatio
    @2ampipeonthepatio 2 года назад +1

    I truly love your videos! Wish I could put them on CD to listen to them on my stereo!

  • @MB5rider81
    @MB5rider81 2 года назад +2

    Honor Courage Commitment

  • @Ethan.s..
    @Ethan.s.. 8 месяцев назад

    In January 1998 I was 17 and on my last family vacation. We visited the big white pearl harbor monument and I remember being amazed seeing the oil bubbles coming up to the surface and knowing dead soldiers where still buried within the ship below. My grandfather fought in the pacific in WWII.

  • @edwardwallace1633
    @edwardwallace1633 2 года назад +3

    Go Navy!!

  • @lynnegackstetter2779
    @lynnegackstetter2779 Год назад +2

    My godfather Dean Haas was at Pearl Harbor. I was young when I heard him talking about it and it took me well into adulthood to stop hating anyone from Japan. My Dad served in WWll. When my grandpa Charlie died of a heart attack I believed he was shot by a tank. I was 5 so didn't fully understand all I overheard about Pearl Harbor and WWll.

  • @davidmurray5399
    @davidmurray5399 2 года назад +3

    Only the U.S.S. Arizona and U.S.S. Oklahoma were complete write-offs. The U.S.S. Maryland was anchored inboard, so suffered the least damage, along with the U.S.S. Pennsylvania. The six battleships were eventually repaired and returned to duty, but aside from a brief ship to ship encounter in the Surigao Strait in 1944, the old battleships mostly performed shore bombardments for the rest of the war.

    • @briansonnenfelt7125
      @briansonnenfelt7125 Год назад +2

      USS Utah was also never salvaged.

    • @bubaa1218
      @bubaa1218 9 дней назад

      Uss Oklahoma would have made it if she didn’t hit hard seas on her way to get repairs

  • @TheMiningCabinet
    @TheMiningCabinet 4 месяца назад

    Thank you to all the WWII veterans, especially those at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The horrors they witnessed, and the horrors yet to come for them until Auguest 1945 are unimaginable. In the HBO series Band of Brothers, I can't remember which vet, but one says, You lost something over there and you never got it back. I feel so sad for all of these men and women, who through no fault of their own, were witness to such horrors and came home to a world that didn't understand what they had been through. Some were able to adjust, some drank or otherwise ended that suffering too soon. We all owe them a great debt of gratitude. God bless ALL of our veterans.💜

  • @Dany-zk5cd
    @Dany-zk5cd Год назад

    Bless these beautiful souls ❤️❣️❤️

  • @dashcan8479
    @dashcan8479 8 месяцев назад

    Humble men. I wish all students watch videos like this one. Maybe just maybe they will uphold the no.1 commandment.

  • @antoniojaramillo5441
    @antoniojaramillo5441 Год назад +1

    God bless everyone of them they are the true fathers and mothers of these nations 🙏 ❤️

  • @dm19609721
    @dm19609721 2 года назад

    amazing and speechless!

  • @williammaxwell1919
    @williammaxwell1919 2 года назад +1

    WOW ~ respect

  • @teresasmith4145
    @teresasmith4145 Год назад +1

    Yayyyy these wonderful brave MEN that love America 🗽💃❣️

  • @daren5666
    @daren5666 Год назад +1

    Yes, thank you for respecting the many women and families who sacrificed so much during WWII ! ⚓⛵⚓🥰

  • @johnemanolis
    @johnemanolis Год назад

    Thank You.

  • @emmgeevideo
    @emmgeevideo 5 месяцев назад +1

    Eight battleships weren't "destroyed". Through heroic efforts, the Navy refloated most of those ships and they continued to fight.

  • @julianodirenzi5719
    @julianodirenzi5719 11 месяцев назад

    God bless our Service Men❤

  • @JB-rt4mx
    @JB-rt4mx 2 года назад +1

    GOD BLESS YOU BRAVE MEN 🇺🇸

  • @daren5666
    @daren5666 Год назад +1

    "Wishing all Pearl Harbor Survivors and those who died December 7, 1941, a Happy Voyage Home"! GO NAVY! 🥰⚓⛵⚓

  • @UnkleAce
    @UnkleAce 2 года назад +1

    Excellent video!

  • @tonydelgado7542
    @tonydelgado7542 2 года назад

    Amazing. They always give meaning to the word General issue.

  • @jamesbohlman4297
    @jamesbohlman4297 2 года назад +1

    They were young when FDR was president and the last of the Civil War veterans still walked the Earth.

  • @andrewmacdonald4833
    @andrewmacdonald4833 4 месяца назад

    When the next great anniversary rolls around, these men will be long gone..that's a desperately sad thought.

  • @stringmonkey568
    @stringmonkey568 2 года назад

    May they all have a Merry Christmas.

  • @ThisGuyWithThatGuy
    @ThisGuyWithThatGuy 2 года назад +1

    Thous men are something we can never imagine living up to.

  • @Patty.29
    @Patty.29 2 года назад +2

    Charles J. SLAMA Jr. Ww2 Navy. Pearl Harbor Recovery. Efforts

  • @kitsunerequiem
    @kitsunerequiem 4 месяца назад

    ❤❤

  • @scotwells7573
    @scotwells7573 Год назад

    Awesome

  • @Famouslastplace
    @Famouslastplace 8 месяцев назад

    Thanks to our troops we can feel safe and Karen's can feel a little too comfortable.

  • @rebeccastaudenmaier4278
    @rebeccastaudenmaier4278 2 года назад

    American Patriots, God Bless them and their families.

  • @fdrstan
    @fdrstan 2 года назад +2

    Thank God for our liberal FDR and his leadership during WWII.

  • @FPFriendlyMomma
    @FPFriendlyMomma 3 месяца назад

    Why didn’t the correspondent talk more with the Japanese American Veteran?

  • @Saicam12
    @Saicam12 Год назад

    Remember when we ran Japan so bad they started drawing anime

  • @carlnash7200
    @carlnash7200 9 месяцев назад

    Never forgive.

  • @LindaMerchant-dw1sw
    @LindaMerchant-dw1sw 8 месяцев назад

    Day of iinfamy

  • @timmyvechett
    @timmyvechett 2 года назад

    I mean they warned us, so surprised.

  • @ongod329
    @ongod329 Год назад

    US dropping that’s bomb 💣 in Japan showed them, that US have greater bomb and silent them the war had to end, when they know who is the boss

  • @YHVHTeaches777
    @YHVHTeaches777 2 года назад

    I can't forgive them either

  • @wickedgaming2014
    @wickedgaming2014 Год назад

    Banzai!

  • @lailpa
    @lailpa Год назад

    A hundred ten thousand lives? Ok 8:50

  • @MAGApepe
    @MAGApepe 2 года назад +3

    BREAKING: Joe Biden was taking calls from the NORAD Santa tracking program and a dad ended the call with "Merry Christmas, and Let's Go Brandon."
    Biden replied with: "Let's Go Brandon, I agree"

    • @daren5666
      @daren5666 Год назад

      I love MAGAT tears! 🥰

    • @MAGApepe
      @MAGApepe Год назад +1

      @@daren5666 i love demoRAT tears !!!

    • @MAGApepe
      @MAGApepe Год назад +1

      @@daren5666 is your wife named karen ??? haahah

  • @danieldonnell3200
    @danieldonnell3200 2 года назад

    Completely different experience for African American soldiers

  • @patrickokeeffe539
    @patrickokeeffe539 2 года назад +1

    They ignored experts, they want to screw EU fishermen, they ridiculed any that told them politicians were telling lies. My sympathies are for the population that voted to stay and still have to leave. Fishermen and Farmers got what they were told would happen by experts, at least they learned a lesson votes have consequences.

  • @danieldesimonedanny1827
    @danieldesimonedanny1827 2 года назад

    If only the Nimitz had a chance to engage.

  • @STXJRB17
    @STXJRB17 2 года назад

    🇺🇸♥️

  • @eddie_pesosdvggaming8885
    @eddie_pesosdvggaming8885 2 года назад +2

    Remember that the US gov had warning of the attack but did not alert anyone to have an excuse to enter the war...

  • @Miinecraftserver
    @Miinecraftserver Год назад +1

    And people are honouring
    *🇯🇵Japanese fans* in FIFA World Cup currently going on in Qatar why ? Cuz they supposedly cleaning the garbage !! 🇯🇵 Japan did some really horrible stuff to a whole lot of people .

    • @andrewhatcher2702
      @andrewhatcher2702 Год назад +1

      Yeah, but c’mon. The people picking up trash at the World Cup didnt have anything to do with this.

  • @mssedmebich1621
    @mssedmebich1621 2 года назад

    I can understand people wanting a memorial for a few days but, these memorials can stay for months or even years. It's someone else's property: you don't own it because someone died there.

    • @Ethan.s..
      @Ethan.s.. 8 месяцев назад

      So the Lincoln memorial should be removed? Over stayed it’s welcome for you?

  • @scotwells7573
    @scotwells7573 Год назад

    They knew Japan was going to attack, they knew.