Where were you December 7, 1941?

Memories | Uncle George

[southland]

I was 9 years old and did not really understand the gravity of the situation even though I knew it was deadly serious.

[Uncle George]

I was only 10 but I started to realize the impact of war when I saw families grieving the death of their son killed in battle.

[southland]

I was pilot Strategic Air mCommand B-36 carrying hydrogen bombs. Quite awsome.
Most people do no realize how close we came to war during the cold war. They were scared of us if they were at least half bright..!!
Flight class 56H. Served 1954 - 1957. Stationed at Walker AFB Roswell NM.

[Uncle George]

Do you remember?

[ArmyTeach]

Dec 11, 1942 was just short of 3 years before I was born. But my mother was standing out on her lanai watching the Japanese airplanes bomb the ships where so many of her friends were assigned. And my Dad, a day later, was hauling his submarine out of Manila and heading for deep waters.

[Ditter]

I was 2 months old but I heard about it later. Boy oh boy did I ever hear about it. Almost every sentence my parents uttered from then on started with "back before the war" or "during the war" or "after the war was over".

I remember 9-11, I was drinking coffee and watching TV coverage about the first plane, when the second plane hit. Now I say "back before 9-11.

[HungarianGypsy]

My dad would have been 8 years old that day. I wasn't born for another 32 years.

My best friend in high school has a December 7 birthday. But, he was born about three or four years after I was.

[GrammaLou]

Before the button, there was a block of oleo and some powder. The white oleo, it looked like lard, was warmed and the orange powder was hand mixed with a big spoon. When it was close to being all the same color, it was sorta shaped and put in the ice box. We would get, don't know how often, little round things, about the size of a dime, and would be able to go to Pittsburgh to Isaly's and get butter. We had a rather large family, so we were allowed more than one pound of real butter.

[ozzymandus]

12 years before I was born, but my Mother once told me she was at her parent's home when the news came on the radio.

[AVNevis]

With the exception of one, my grandparents were still in High School at the time.

[Uncle George]

So few veterans of WW2 are still alive, my brother in law, who served in England in WW2, passed away a few years ago.

[Billthedrill]

My Dad was transferring from the 106th Illinois Cavalry to the regular Army Signal Corps because the dang generals made them give up their horses. Let's just say that Army life changed sort of rapidly thereafter.

Not sure where I was at the time - I used to think I was Josef Stalin in my previous life but I think Hillary has a better claim...

[MissouriConservative]

Heck, my dad wasn't born until the next month, January 1942 and mom wasn't born until November of 1943, so I guess I wasn't even a dream yet.....lol

[TWfromTEXAS]

Neither I nor my parents were even born. One grandmother was 12, the other was 13. Perhaps this explains why these things that are not as important to some of us. Sort of like asking where you were on Nov 11, 1918.

You have to be well into your 30's to have even been born during Viet Nam, much less WWII.

[Uncle George]

How many are still around who remember?