There are fewer and fewer Vets that meet at the memorial services these days. The Pearl Vets are dwindling at a fast rate. We had memorial services locally since we have a couple VA hospitals in the area and lots of retired vets in the area.

Weather or not the US fleet would have bloodied the Japanese Fleets nose or had even more horrendous losses is still in debate.

The aircraft at Pearl WERE mostly obsolete, many of the ships were vets of WW I. I saw a report by one of the war college think tanks that said if the US fleet had sailed, our losses would have been 3 to 4 times as high and the losses to the Japanese fleet…negligible!

Chris
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