I was 13 at the time of the attack. When the announcement came over the radio I was entering a drug store. Like others, I thought it was in error. No one at the store knew where Pearl Harbor was. We listened to the announcement in amazement. My favorite uncle was on leave from the Army, scheduled to return the next for separation processing. He actually was discharged in March 1946. At school the next day all classes gathered around radios set up in the class rooms to listen to President Roosevelt's announcement of the Japanese's "dastardly deed" that would "go down in infamy" and his asking the Congress to declare a state of war between "the people of the United States and the government of Japan".
Thank you Gene, how vivid those memories are of horiffic times can be, but we really must remember every detail to impress upon our young ones of the troubled times so they can find respect for those that came before them. Bless you Gene
Carlo