posted on December 7, 2003 07:42:59 AM new
December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. "A Day in Infamy"
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posted on December 7, 2003 08:28:13 AM new
I still remember it! I was about 3 1/2, and I have distinct memories of our family clustered around the living room radio.
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posted on December 7, 2003 02:40:34 PM new
Roadsmith. You and I must be about the same age. We had one of those big old radio's and Gabriel Heater broke into the news with what happened.
posted on December 7, 2003 02:46:43 PM new
I remember it very well. I had just turned 13 in November. We had been to church & came home. Dad turned on the old Atwater Kent Radio & we heard President Roosevelt speaking. "This is a day that will go down in infamy" My mother was all upset, afraid Dad would be drafted. He was 39, 2 kids & a farmer. Not a chance he would be called. You were just little girls then.
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posted on December 7, 2003 02:54:26 PM new
Hi Libra & Roadsmith, my dear dear friend, more like my Florida mother was in Pearl Harbor during the attack. Her father was an officer in the Navy, she had been sick with tonselites and a very severe fever, up to 105 so her father stayed at their home while her mother got some sleep after being up with her all night. Needless to say if her father did not stay at home he would have been one of the fatalities. When she got her tonsils out she said boy did she get ice cream. What I can not understand is a couple of times I have called our local news station to tell them we have a Pearl Harbor survivor living locally, because they are always trying to interview a person that served at that time. I thought it would be good human interest story. They take down the info,but no one has ever called her or contacted her. she is now 78 years old.
Reenie
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posted on December 7, 2003 02:57:30 PM new
sorry sanmar, you were replying the same time I was, hello to you also.
Reenie
I don't get even....I get even better Jimmy Hoffa
posted on December 7, 2003 05:23:18 PM new
I Remember hearing on the kitchen radio and reading in the paper and seeing the pictures of the Naval ships a fire,,,,of the Horribble happenings of that era,,,,,Veterans were reliving their thoughts of the event. As Veterans spoke the sound track of the attacking Japanese planes was played in the background. Back then it was the 20th Anniversary,,,,1961.
posted on December 7, 2003 06:49:51 PM new
Boy do I feel like a baby. I was born 15 years later. My mother remembers it, though. People need to remember that 9/11 was not the only time this country was attacked. I think many people lost sight of Pearl Harbor after 9/11. I remember her talking about the internments when I was in high school. I don't remember why we were discussing it, but I do remember how sad she sounded about it. Many people would have liked to have seen it done again after 9/11. I'm so very glad a lesson was learned the first time around.
posted on December 7, 2003 08:02:54 PM new
I was born almost 20 years after the attack. While more people were killed at Pearl Harbor at least it was a military target, not a bunch of civilians going to work.
posted on December 8, 2003 04:21:43 AM new
The killed weren't all military. Nevertheless, they were still Americans on American soil. Doesn't diminish it in the least.
posted on December 8, 2003 06:47:48 AM new
Casualities to U.S. service personnel were 2,343 killed, 960 missing, and 1,272. This was in one day. Although all these statistics are Military they were not expecting anything to happen.
