My mother who just recently passed away peacefully
at age 92 used to tell of her running to the back of
the farm to tell her dad of the Pearl Harbor attack.
A brother was a Marine who came back in one piece and
a husband who came back with a scar from his right shoulder
to below his left hip.
America at its finest saving sorry a**ed Europe.
I remember it well——we were having Sunday dinner at an aunt’s house in MA when the news came over the radio.
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I am blessed that my Mom is still with us at 98. In a nursing home, remembers little but to this day can tell me about a friend in Honolulu inviting her to come visit. This was in June 1941.
Asked her father for permission (Mom was living at home). Grandpa, a coal miner now boiler operator with a fifth grade education replied, “Hell, no! Those d@mn Japs are gonna bomb Hawaii any day now!”
My Dad’s unit in occupied Germany was reequipping to ship out to the Pacific theater when the atomic bombs were dropped. Dad said I could thank Harry Truman for my being on this Earth.
The past is never far away.