“Many of us haven’t forgotten & never will.”
I have a letter, postmarked Dec. 5, 1941, from my uncle to my grandmother ... by the time she received that letter on Dec. 8, the world had been changed forever. My grandmother saw him two or three times (after Pearl Harbor) until July of 1945. He spent most of the time in the “Canal Zone” flying patrols (submarine hunter) .... he said during his trip there, on a troop ship, that they rescued many Merchant Marines from life boats.
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I have a letter, postmarked Dec. 5, 1941, from my uncle to my grandmother ...
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My mom says she remembers the Pearl Harbor radio reports and how
sad AND angry the adults got.
She was age 8, and said that after hearing enough of how the Japanese
had attacked over great distances, and the rumors about California
being at risk of invasion...she got scared the Japanese might attack
her home and town.
In north-central Oklahoma.
She laughs about it. But she said there was fear like that at the time.