Today is December 7 that means today is what we now call Pearl Harbor Day. The attack on Pearl Harbor was 76 years ago today. Today’s song is Anchors Aweigh, I always thought the song title was Anchors Away, but it turns out that’s it’s Anchors Aweigh. My guess why they call it aweigh is because anchors are really heavy, of coarse I could be wrong. I think you have to ask someone that’s in the Navy they should know or I guess you could look it up on the internet. There are a lot of different versions of the song, this one is my favorite because it shows current Navy personal on a ship. This video is really good, until the end where their standing in front of their ship and they unroll a banner that reads Go Navy Beat Army. Now since today is Pearl Harbor Day when you see this part just imagine that the banner says Go Navy Beat Japan.
For several years I went to church with a man who was there on December 7, 1941. Every year Brother Scott would tell his story about his experience on a ship, I don’t remember which ship Brother Scott was on, I guess I should because I heard his story, which he didn’t change a word, every year for a least 20 years. The thing that everyone remembers about Brother Scott was how he was such a snappy dresser. Brother Scott wore every Sunday a plaid leisure suit with a super wide “beautiful tie” a 3 inch wide white belt with a silver buckle and of coarse he always had on his polished white shoes. It is possible that all his leisure suits were homemade. If you want know how it was in 1941 you could ask Brother Scott, if you want to know how really cool men dressed in 1973 you could look at Brother Scott. It won’t be long until all of the World War 2 veterans are gone and their will only be memories not anyone who could tell how it was like to really be there.