Where were you December 7, 1941?

Memories | Uncle George

[Uncle George]

"A Christmas Story"; My Grandmother used to tell me "you'll shoot your eye out" every time I took out my Daisy air gun. I never did but I shot my sister in the butt with chicken feed as ammo (Got a GOOD licking too).

[boris]

I was in Tumbolia. A virtual Boris, already plotting against Moose and Squirrel.

--Boris

[MissAmericanPie]

ROFLOL, that's cute. Just think if a child did that now he would be forced to see a shrink, banned from school, and made a disgrace in the community for a childish prank.

[Uncle George]

BUMP

[Uncle George]

Wasn't the memorial services from Pearl Harnor wonderfull today on the History Channel? Everyone have a nice night.

[krb]

That was 4 years before my mother was born...

[Snow Bunny]

It sure was, I taped it and am watching it now.Good to see you my friend.

[Sandy]

Sheez, my parents weren't even born at that time.

[Uncle George]

Well another "Day of infamy" is nearing, what are your feelings about Dec.7, 1941?

[rdb3]

Where were you December 7, 1941?

Didn't arrive on the scene until December 22, 1971.

But I share your sentiment about the "Giant."

There shall be no mercy.
101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that Internet Explorer cannot.

[retiredtexan]

I was 8 years old,living in Kirkwood Missouri, and I remember was I playing outside, when my mother rushed outside and said that we had been attacked by the Japs and that it happened at a place called Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Had no idea where that was.

[FightThePower!]

My parents wern't even born!

[snippy_about_it]

Well, I was yet a thought but I am proud that my mother was one of the first WAVES to be shipped to Pearl Harbor. She had gone from NY to SF and waiting in SF to sail out as soon as they could find a ship to use and pass the law to allow them off the continent where they had only been allowed to serve until then.

From the Navy History site:

"For most of their wartime service, WAVES had little opportunity for sea travel. Their authorizing legislation had specifically restricted their service to the continental United States and this was not changed for more than two years, despite the Navy's requests. Finally, in September 1944 Public Law 441 was signed, permitting WAVES to serve in Hawaii, Alaska, Panama and the Caribbean.

They were most needed in Hawaii, home base for much of the great Pacific offensive then closing in on Japan. After a survey by women officers and careful selection of those who volunteered for the duty, the troop transport Matsonia sailed in late December 1944 with the first continent of Pearl Harbor-bound WAVES. The Fourteenth Naval District, the Navy's Hawaiian command, took all it could get and wanted more, identifying more than 6600 billets that they could fill. Up to Japan's August 1945 capitulation, ships carried a steady stream of WAVES westward toward Hawaii."

[Consort]

That date was during a previous incarntions. Some of me was part of a tree in a rain forest in Borneo. Another part of me was part of a comet in another galaxy. Some of me was part of a cloud on Venus. A little part of me was in a germ in the diaper rash of a medieval baby.

[wimpycat]

That was way before my time, and almost before my parents' time. I don't know what my 7 year old dad was doing on December 7, 1941, but my mom was 5 years old on that date and she remembers the grownups talking about Pearl Harbor and she thought Pearl Harbor was a woman. "Poor old Pearl", she thought.

[Uncle George]

Back then I didn't know where Pearl Harbor was either till our teacher showed us on a world map in school Monday.

[Iron Eagle]

I was not yet born. My father was 16, and he tells me that he first heard about the bombing on that Monday morning. He said his entire high school was hearded into the school auditorium for radio coverage.

less than one year later, at age 17, he sought and received his parents permission to join the Marine Corps. He was rejected on the first attempt, as he failed to make the 132lbs cut-off. (He was 130) Two-weeks later, he successfully joined the corps. He fought in the South Pacific, and he was poised for the invasion of the Japanese mainland when Truman dropped the bombs.

He and four brothers, all made it home okay. 1 Navy, 3 Army. Only one was wounded at Battle of the Buldge.

[ServesURight]

Sorry, I didn't make my debut until 1972. Sorr-eeee! :-)

Hey, me too! October 1972 was my debut.

[Intimidator]

A gleam in my 2 year old daddy's eye.