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Dong-da Sallim (동다 살림) Kore Çay Kültürü
동다 살림 Dongd-da Sallim çay içme görgü kurallarının bir çeşididir.
동다 [Dong-da] Kore kültür ve tarihinin temelindeki Kore'nin güzelliğini yeniden keşfetmek için yaratılmış Kore çay kültürü anlamına gelir. Buradaki Dong [東-Çince Doğu demek] kelimesi güneş, doğum ve eskiyi yeniden algılamanın memnuniyetini ifade eder.
Çay Seremonisi Prosedürü
1. Çay Seremonisi Çanı [다고 타종] : Kore, gökyüzünü
İstanbul Deniz Müzesi'nde Seyrüsefer
1897'de Binbaşı Süleyman Nutki
tarafından kurulan ve 2. Dünya Savaşı'ndan sonra 1948'de Dolmabahçe Sarayı'nda
hizmetlerine devam eden, 1961 yılından itibaren ise Beşiktaş Meydanı'ndaki
binasında faaliyetlerini sürdüren İstanbul
Deniz Müzesi, 2007 yılında başlatılan inşaat
ve restorasyon çalışmaları tamamlanarak, yenilenen haliyle 5 Ekim 2013'te ziyaretçilere
kapılarını açtı. Türkiye'nin
DECEMBER 7 = Pearl Harbor; 9/11 for a Past Generation
Above: the U.S.S. Arizona explodes from a direct hit by a Japanese bomb.
Radar at Opana Point and the Japanese Attack
"Army Sgt. Joe Lockhard glanced first at the calender. December 7, 1941, only 17 more shopping days to Christmas......a blip appeared on the radar (the Sgt. was watching the radar at the radar station on Opana Point). Odd. There shouldn't be anything out there, nor should anything be approaching Oahu from the bleak wastes of the North Pacific which was far off normal steamer lanes. Lt. Kermit A. Taylor was the lone officer on duty.....he listened patiently to Sgt. Lockhard's report, and saw no reason for concern. It must be a squadron of Hickam Field bombers...or possibly the B-17's due from the coast."
- Dale Brix.
"Major Alan Shapley, the commander of (the U.S.S.)Arizona's Marine detachment, was enjoying his breakfast when he felt a terrific jar..... he ran topside investigate. He vividly recalled some sailors standing at Arizona's rail watching a flight of planes flash across the harbor. he heard one of the men remark, 'This is the best goddamn drill the Army Air Force has ever put on!' Lt. Commander Samuel G. Fuqua reached the deck about the same time. Fuqua directed Ensign H.D. Davidson to sound General Quarters. About that time the ship took a bomb hit on the starboard side of the quarterdeck....."
- Gordon W. Prange
This was the scene early on the morning of this date, December 7
naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The battleship U.S.S. Ari- zona was one of several U.S. battleships which found themselves the subject of the attack by Japanese naval aircraft that Sunday morning. This surprise attack by the Japanese Empire shocked every American who was alive at the time, and for generations after would remain the most important and shattering experience in our nations history. Not until the events of September 11, 2001 would more Americans die in one event. Not until 9/11 would America feel the sting of a sneak attack by a hostile foreign power. And not until 9/11 would there be that single event, wherein everyone remembered where they were and what they were doing when they heard about it. My father remembers being in a car going across Knowlton's Corner in Cincinnati with his brother Hank when the news came over the car's radio. Perhaps some of your relatives have similar memories.
Admiral Kimmel Also Witnesses the Destruction
The Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel also had the unenviable experience of witnessing the attack upon his base described above. He had been at his home on the phone with his duty officer, Commander Vincent Murphy, who first heard of the attack during the call, and passed the news along to the shocked Kimmel:
"The Admiral slammed down the receiver and dashed outside, buttoning his white uniform jacket as he ran. Next door to Kimmel, (his neighbors)the Earles' new home commanded a clear view of Battleship Row across the harbor. Kimmel and Mrs. Earle stood transfixed as the planes flew over "circling in figure 8's then bombing the ships, turning and dropping more bombs." They "could plainly see the rising suns on the wings and would have seen the pilot's faces had they leaned out." Mrs. Earle's sympathetic heart spilled over in grief and pity for the Admiral as he watched 'in utter disbelief and completely stunned,' his stricken face 'as white as the uniform he wore.' "
Kimmel and Short Are Made Scapegoats
Admiral Kimmel and Pearl Harbor's Army base commander, Lt. General Walter C. Short (pictured above) would be saddled with the brunt of the blame for the Pearl Harbor disaster in subsequent inquiries. Kimmel had been a very tough and disciplined naval officer. He was known to eschew many of the social functions which went with his job. "Admiral Kimmel was no party animal...Hard, sharp and utterly frank, he worked himself to the bone." in the words of Walter Lord. But he and Short found themselves on the receiving end of all of the blame. The two argued that much key information had been kept from them, thus preventing them from taking the kind of precautionary measures that were needed. Clearly, both Kimmel and Short made mistakes in the weeks leading up to the devastating attack. But this writer can only look upon it a serious mis-carriage of justice for these men to have been saddled with the whole blame. It is regrettable, but they wound up being scapegoats. Nevertheless, historians still argue the matter to this day.
FDR and the "Day of Infamy".
On Dec. 8, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to the U.S. Congress to request a Declaration of War against Japan. He labeled Dec. 7 "a date which will live in infamy." Speaking to the American people that evening he said:
"We are now in this war. We are in it -- all the way. Every single man, woman and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking of our American history. We must share together the bad news and the good news, the defeats and victories -- the changing fortunes of war. We are going to win this war, and the peace that follows."
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Sources:
"At Dawn We Slept - the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor" by Gordon W. Prange, Penguin Books, New York, 1981.
"Day of Infamy" by Walter Lord, Holt, & Co., New York, 1957
"Pearl Harbor and the Day of Infamy" - Dale Brix, UPI from the Dec. 4, 1966 issue of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Images:
USS Arizona =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pearlharborcolork13513.jpg
USS Shaw =
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h86000/h86118.jpg
Adm. Kimmel & Gen. Short =
WWW.PEARLHARBOR911ATTACKS.COM
FDR =
worldwar2database.com/ gallery3/index.php/wwii1412
+ 136.
+ 82.
Christmas Music- Silver Bells-Perry Como
I remember listening to this as a child. I love this version with all the "silvery bells" in the background.
Did you know Silver Bells was first sung in the 1951 movie "The Lemon Drop Kid" by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell? It is a fun screwball movie with a bit of a Christmas theme.
Did you know Silver Bells was first sung in the 1951 movie "The Lemon Drop Kid" by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell? It is a fun screwball movie with a bit of a Christmas theme.
DECEMBER 6 = The Monongah Mining Disaster
This was the memory of Carl Meredith, a Foreman on the the Fairmont Mine in West Virginia of the worst mining disaster in American history which happened at Monongah, West Virginia on December 6, 1907. Around 10:30 in the morning after a full contingent of 380 workers, both men and boys had begun their shift, mines no. 6 and 8 of the Fairmont Consolidated Coal Mine were blasted by the force of an underground explosion. An estimated total of 362 miners lost their lives leaving 250 widows and over 1,000 children without support. This was the worst industrial disaster in U.S. History.
A Coal Car Breaks Loose...
In Mine Number 6 which connected with Mine number 8 at the Fairmont Coal Co. outside of Monongah, West Virginia, an 18 year old miner had been operating a trainload of coal cars up the shaft of the processing plant when a coupling broke lose, and sent the coal cars crashing back down the sloping mine. The miner ran ahead, hoping to cut the electrical circuits, but he was too late. The lose cars crashed into a wall, cutting electrical cables which then ignited the dust cloud which had been raised by the crash, it was firmly asserted, and this resulted in an explosion so vast and so powerful that it ruptured almost every ceiling and wall in the mine, instantly killing the miners working below.
And Causes an Explosion Killing Hundreds
“The terrible force of the two explosions is beyond description. The large black power house, with it’s vast machinery, And the boiler room were virtually obliterated. Tons of brick and timbers were hurled through the air. At the entrance of the mine was a big iron grating with bars three inches apart. It too, was carried across the river. The fan and the grating were blown 600 feet.”
The mines were connected by a steel bridge over the West Fork River above the ground and by a labyrinth of tunnels beneath. A huge cave-in obstructed the main entrance of number 6 above ground, the main opening being blocked by the wreckage from two strings of ore cars and two electric dynamo motors. The underground structure had been warped into a mass of earth, timber support beams, and metal. The explosion wrecked the ventilation systems causing mixture of deadly gases to be trapped within the mines.
Rescue Efforts are Hampered; Only Four Escape
Several hours later, flour men managed to escape through an outcrop opening above mine number 8, dazed, bloody and with their clothing singed. These men with the other two proved to be the only survivors in the accident. It took five full days of struggle for rescue parties, having to shore up wrecked walls and ceilings as they dug downward to reach the bodies of their fallen comrades. Many of these men had been burned to death, apparently caught in the path of the igniting methane gas; others had simply been suffocated or crushed beneath tons of fallen timber and earth. One man was found with a half-eaten sandwich in his mouth, apparently he had taken a break just as the explosion struck. It took five days to bring out 337 bodies, and another week went by as 17 more were brought to the surface. Eight more were removed by the first of the new year bringing the total to 362.
The men on the surface came to the conclu- sion that the workers who survived the explosion and cave-in would soon be killed by the gases. These poisonous fumes, which circulated throughout the mines required rescuers to work in relay shifts because they had no protective equipment, such as gas masks and could only work in this lethally gaseous atmosphere for fifteen minutes before having to come up for air. Indeed some of these rescue workers were sufficiently injured by inhaling the vapors that they had to be taken away for medical treatment. Fires which had broken out in mines number 6 and 8 created the further danger of smoke, and only made the problems of the rescue attempt worse. The first blaze started on December 8th in the main entry of mine number 6 at about midnight and a second fire begun in mine number 8 not long after 3:00 pm, delaying rescue work.
The Heartbroken Families of the Lost....
Almost every one of the 3,000 people living in Monongah came running at the sound of the blast, and wound up standing the cold weather, both rain and snow and in the darkness for several days after while they waited for the bodies of their loved ones to be brought to the surface. In some cases, entire families were wiped out. Americans made up a large number of this work force at the Fairmont mine, but most of the men working there had been immigrants. Working at the mine with Americans were Slavs, Poles, and Irishmen. However, the largest number of immigrants at in Monongah were Italian. As the bodies were taken to make-shift morgues in the area their grief spilled over. Paul Kellog, a
“A peasant, ugly with her pitted face, but beautiful in her great sorrow, bent often and kissed the lips of her (dead) husband. All of a sudden there was a cry more piercing than the others. It was from an old mother who had lost seven – her husband, a son, two sons-in-law, and three nephews. She had come upon one of them and the people with her could scarcely hold her. She threw her head on the casket, and spoke to the boy fondly, trying to caress the crumpled face with poor, wrinkled hands. She had moaned all the way that morning from her lonely house to the church door, giving infinite sorrow to those who heard, and here her grief had at last found vent. Outside, rain continued depressing the almost impossible situation further.”
The explosion was it was believed, had been caused by the ignition of "black damp" otherwise known as methane. This in turn ignited the highly flammable coal dust, which is found in all West Virginia
Sources:
"Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster, the Worst Industrial Accident in U.S. History." by Davitt McAtee, West Virginia University Press, Morgantown, West Virginia, 2007.
“Darkest Hours” by Jay Robert Nash, Wallaby Books, New York, 1977.
New York Times, 7 - 13 December 1907.
New York Times, 19 December 1907.
DECEMBER 5 = Nelson Mandela Dies
Nelson Mandela passed away today's date, December 5, six years ago. It is not often that I get a chance to record something as "historic" on this Blog on the day it happens. In fact, the only other time I can recall doing so was when Bin laden was killed. But this was truly a moment of history, and we all knew it on the very day it happened. Nelson Mandela was for the people of South Africa what James Thomas Flexner said that George Washington was for America: "The Indispensable Man". Here was a man who had languished in prison for over twenty-eight years. Younger people likely do not recall those days when South Africa had in place a system of racial injustice called "Apartheid" which made it into a matter of law that the black majority would be discriminated against. For his activities in opposition to this system Nelson Mandela went to jail.
Mandela - the Serious-Looking Man
This picture of him at left (or one very much like it) is the only image of him which I can recall having seen for years. A serious face on a serious man who clearly meant serious trouble for his captors if they ever let him go. I can't say that I was a student of South African affairs, but I did keep up on world affairs, and throughout the 1980's I can recall hearing it time and
again: "FREE NELSON MANDELA!" Newsmen would routinely call his country not "South Africa", but "Racist South Africa." Some U.S. leaders, such as Jimmy Carter took a very hard-line on the country. Others such as Ronald Reagan took a less hard line, following a policy of "constructive engagement." Most of the media in the U.S. took a dim view of that, and were not shy about saying so. Nevertheless, Nelson Mandela was eventually freed by the South African government in February of 1990.
Mandela. Like Washington Takes the High Road
But an odd thing happened on Mandela's release from prison: he showed no bitterness. He had no bitterness towards his former captors who had stolen twenty-eight years of his life. Like George Washington, he saw his nation's best interests, and put them first. He worked with South Africa's last white President, F.W. De Klerk to smooth the transition to democracy and majority rule. Like George Washington he was elected President of his new democracy. He had no bitterness towards any of those with whom he might have disagreed. He spoke well of President Reagan. He never pursued punitive efforts against the former proponents of Apartheid. After years of the darkest fears that his country would descend into the civil wars and tribal blood baths that characterized so many of Africa's new nations, it just didn't happen. Instead, with Nelson Mandela setting the example, his country settled down to peace and prosperity. His countrymen were spared the agony of civil war and the world was spared yet another region of political instability. And most importantly, like George Washington, Mandela showed no lust for power. When his term came to an end in 1999, he voluntarily stepped down, relinquishing power that would have been his for the taking. This is an EXTREMELY rare thing in today's world. That is why Nelson Mandela was for his own country the indispensable man, and for the world, he was a rare beacon of light. That is why we honor him today. That is why his death today is a moment of history.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela
Fox News Reports of 12/5/13.
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