{"id":1498352,"date":"2022-05-31T13:44:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498352"},"modified":"2022-05-31T13:44:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:44:58","slug":"nyc-mayor-gives-memorial-day-wwii-history-lesson-deletes-tweet-after-he-gets-the-facts-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-gives-memorial-day-wwii-history-lesson-deletes-tweet-after-he-gets-the-facts-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Gives Memorial Day WWII History Lesson \u2014 Deletes Tweet After He Gets The Facts Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-mayor-gives-memorial-day-wwii-history-lesson-deletes-tweet-after-he-gets-the-facts-wrong%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498352&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) kicked off Memorial Day with a World War II history lesson \u2013 and then promptly deleted his tweet when critics noticed he had gotten the facts wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Adams recognized the holiday aboard the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid \u2013 also known as \u201cThe Fighting I\u201d \u2014 a World War II era Essex-Class carrier. The Intrepid was decommissioned in 1974 and now rests in Hudson Harbor as a part of the Intrepid Sea, Air &#038; Space Museum.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Join us on the U.S.S. Intrepid as we honor Memorial Day. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5QzhVvbNf4\">https:\/\/t.co\/5QzhVvbNf4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/1531276691548643328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adams attempted to add historical context in another tweet \u2014 now deleted \u2014 that read, \u201cThe U.S.S. Intrepid is an amazing symbol of resilience. Under attack at Pearl Harbor, it endured. It stands for the sacrifice of our armed forces and our nation\u2019s power to recover from tragedy. We still need that spirit today, and I honor the sacrifices that made it possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And while Adams\u2019 attempt to recognize the nation\u2019s bravest heroes should not be discounted \u2014 and as critics pointed out, the USS Intrepid certainly had a rich history worth remembering \u2014 but they also noted that Adams had gotten that history all wrong.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, the USS Intrepid could not have been at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked \u2013 mainly because it was not launched until late April of 1943, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor took place over a full year earlier on December 7, 1941. The Intrepid was part of achieving several key objectives in the Pacific after its launch, however, taking part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the fight to gain control of Okinawa.<\/p>\n<p>And second, historians have noted that the one blessing with regard to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor was that none of the aircraft carriers assigned to Pearl were present during the attack. The USS Enterprise, the USS Lexington, and the USS Saratoga were all assigned to Pearl at the time, but were not present on that Sunday morning when the Japanese attacked.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Because I grew up near the Norfolk Navy Base and my Dad fought in the Pacific in WWII, I thought everyone knew the only positive that horrible day was all 3 Pacific-based carriers \u2013 Enterprise, Lexington and Saratoga \u2013 weren&#8217;t at Pearl that day. Intrepid didn&#8217;t even exist yet. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YX1M2LV9d0\">https:\/\/t.co\/YX1M2LV9d0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Scarangella (@DullesDistrict) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DullesDistrict\/status\/1531407619147059203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Intrepid did see some extraordinary action (and it did go, at one point, to Pearl Harbor). From the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IntrepidMuseum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IntrepidMuseum<\/a> website: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hIp4HroQji\">pic.twitter.com\/hIp4HroQji<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Young (@GregoireNYC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregoireNYC\/status\/1531373218786906122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Intrepid was also on the receiving end of several kamikaze strikes in 1944 \u2014 three in the space of just one month \u2014 that resulted in the losses of 79 men in total. The first, on October 29, killed ten as a gun crew of African American sailors continued to fire on the plane as it crashed into their position. On November 25, two planes crashed into the Intrepid in the Philippines. Striking the carrier within minutes of each other, those two kamikaze strikes killed another 69 men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) kicked off Memorial Day with a World War II history lesson \u2013 and then promptly deleted his tweet when critics noticed he had gotten the facts wrong. Adams recognized the holiday aboard the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid \u2013 also known as \u201cThe Fighting I\u201d \u2014 a World War &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1498382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}