Pearl Harbor

[FRJ]

1941, over 80 years ago.

It's too easy to be forgotten, and hard to ignore.

Just thought I'd mention it.

[peanut740]

Amen!

[Froe]

I asked my mother what she remembered about that day. She told me she was 15 and walking up a NC country road coming home from church with her sisters when an older neighbor ‘hollered at them’. He told them he had just heard the news on the radio that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. They hurried home and rushed inside into tell their mother. What seemed to be her most vivid moment of the day’s memory was her mother saying “Oh no, now Warren will have to go to war.” Warren was the oldest boy and Warren did have to go, but fortunately he was stationed in Alaska and avoided the fighting.
My father was 16 at the time, but joined at 17 spending the last two years of the war in combat in Germany and Belgium. He was deeply affected by the experience.
We owe that generation a debt we cannot pay. We must never forget.
Froe

[Ripster]

I asked my mother what she remembered about that day. She told me she was 15 and walking up a NC country road coming home from church with her sisters when an older neighbor ‘hollered at them’. He told them he had just heard the news on the radio that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. They hurried home and rushed inside into tell their mother. What seemed to be her most vivid moment of the day’s memory was her mother saying “Oh no, now Warren will have to go to war.” Warren was the oldest boy and Warren did have to go, but fortunately he was stationed in Alaska and avoided the fighting.
My father was 16 at the time, but joined at 17 spending the last two years of the war in combat in Germany and Belgium. He was deeply affected by the experience.
We owe that generation a debt we cannot pay. We must never forget.
Froe

Thanks for sharing that.
Let’s hope we never forget as you mentioned.

[OLDE CUTLER]

Saw an article yesterday that there are 16 survivors believed to be still living. All would be near or over 100 years old. Fascinating stuff to hear their accounts of that day which will " live in infamy".

[wlf]

Daddy joined when he was 17 too. Coming home he turned down a deed to half of thousands of acres from a brother in arms and another brother in arms asked him if he would stay in NY a while he would get him a date with his relative Marlene Deitrich.
Daddy said he wasn't tempted by either, he just wanted to get back to Lick Creek and see his Mommy. Daddy stayed in the woods and on the creek banks for almost two years before he could adjust back into society.
I never lost anyone close in WWII , but I did lose a close cousin in Vietnam.
It galls me that Communism is taken so casually by people and politicians now. It's like my cousin and all those others died for nothing.