I used to know some men who were at Pearl Harbor, now I only know a few people old enough to remember it.
One guy I grew up with was as really good amateur golfer and served in the Army Air Corps in WW II. Wouldn’t you know he was already on the golf course when the Japanese attacked. I played golf with his son.
I remember it very well. I was five years old and st dinner with our next-door neighbors. My wonderful dad didn’t make me stay at the table with the adults, so I was in the living room dancing to music on the radio. President Roosevelt came on to announce that Pearl Harbor had been attacked. I was the one who went into the dining room and told everyone.
Every single man in America went to the draft board the next day. They discovered that my dad had a heart murmur, so he could not serve. Became a “dollar=a=year man” along with many others. He had restaurants all over the country, knew how to feed large numbers of people.
If we had Pearl Harbor tomorrow, the “men” would not volunteer. Except, perhaps to be Kamikaze pilots.