Man remembers 2 brothers lost at Pearl Harbor 62 Years Later

The Commercial Appeal ^ | 12/7/03 | Laura Coleman Noeth

[GailA]

Man remembers 2 brothers lost at Pearl Harbor 62 Years Later

By Laura Coleman Noeth Contact December 7, 2003

It was a time when families the size of baseball teams weren't uncommon, when folks gathered around RCA radios for the happiest, and saddest, of news.

On Dec. 7, 1941, in a frame house on 20th Street in Humboldt, Tenn., Rosa and Van Arthur Kennington, like millions of American parents, herded their children to the radio to hear about the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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But this family had more cause for concern than others.

Several days later came a knock on the door. After losing their oldest son, Lloyd, in The War to End All Wars several years earlier, they learned they'd lost two more in the event that propelled the United States into World War II.

[GailA]

fyi there are several photos of his brothers in this article.

[truthkeeper]

What an incredibly heartbreaking story. I can't even begin to imagine what those parents must have gone through. Rest in peace, all of them. BTTT