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Freddie

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30. My dad and his brother enlisted

Sun Dec 7, 2014, 03:48 PM

Dec 2014

Dad was 20, living at home, working and taking classes at a local business college. Because he knew typing and shorthand, he was sent to India as a quartermasters clerk and never saw fighting. Mom was a 9th-grader, some of her older classmates enlisted as well. After the war Dad went to teachers college on the GI Bill, where he met Mom. 14 years after Pearl Harbor I was an infant.

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Do you remember what you were doing when you heard the news about Pearl Harbor? [View all] raccoon Dec 2014 OP

Sort of...I remember watching Walter Cronkite's "The Big Picture" HereSince1628 Dec 2014 #1

I remember it as "The Twentieth Century" longship Dec 2014 #29

They would probably be in their late seventies, early eighties to have a recollection of the event. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2014 #2

Right. I thought there might be a few here. nt raccoon Dec 2014 #21

My grandpa got married one day before pearl harbor Travis_0004 Dec 2014 #3

You know, edhopper Dec 2014 #4

Yes. I was in fifth grade and the teacher told us all about it. Renew Deal Dec 2014 #5

No. At 10 mos. I was probably asleep. Downwinder Dec 2014 #6

My Dad told me this. rickford66 Dec 2014 #7

My dad was there. knitter4democracy Dec 2014 #8

My grand parents who were living in Hawaii at the time yuiyoshida Dec 2014 #9

Please! It's "internment" not "interment" (unless they were being literally buried in a camp.) PSPS Dec 2014 #18

okay thanks...I will correct it.. yuiyoshida Dec 2014 #19

My Army Air Force grandfather would sometimes uncharacteristically speak of "Japs." hunter Dec 2014 #35

I have heard younger people on line yuiyoshida Dec 2014 #36

My father-in-law witnessed Atomic Bombs up close in the Nevada desert. hunter Dec 2014 #42

I was -17, somewhere in the cosmos :) steve2470 Dec 2014 #10

My Mama was teaching in a small town in SC. Are_grits_groceries Dec 2014 #11

-26 years old ballabosh Dec 2014 #12

I had breakfast with my 94 year old mother today... SiobhanClancy Dec 2014 #13

Hmmm - guess not. I was an egg in my mama's ovary. Vinca Dec 2014 #14

My father had been transported with his family to concentration camp in Riga a few months before... stevenleser Dec 2014 #15

wow. kwassa Dec 2014 #38

I was 3 months old and my parents had taken me to a movie with them. I do not of course remember jwirr Dec 2014 #16

This is the mind of pipi_k Dec 2014 #17

I wasn't thought of yet but my Dad was in his first year of college csziggy Dec 2014 #20

My father... malokvale77 Dec 2014 #22

I was almost 3 years old at the time. RebelOne Dec 2014 #23

Was 18mo old but I'm sure I had an opinion. CK_John Dec 2014 #24

I was a year and a half old and my parents took me with them to their favorite watering hole, truly. monmouth4 Dec 2014 #25

Not surprising, few DUers would have remembered actually hearing the news of this day... MrMickeysMom Dec 2014 #26

+100. nt peace13 Dec 2014 #28

Just an egg in my mother's ovary. peace13 Dec 2014 #27

My dad and his brother enlisted Freddie Dec 2014 #30

Mom says -- madamesilverspurs Dec 2014 #31

Nope, my parents weren't even born yet.... giftedgirl77 Dec 2014 #32

I was sitting at my desk at school. 1967. Kaleva Dec 2014 #33

pretty funny treestar Dec 2014 #40

I was two years old in 1941, and I don't remember hearing the news. Lionel Mandrake Dec 2014 #34

I wasn't born until 1945. Lugnut Dec 2014 #37

This was my previous life, but I have no memory of it. kwassa Dec 2014 #39

my Dad says he thought about deserting when he heard about the attack Enrique Dec 2014 #41