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Does anyone else here actually remember 12/7/41 ??
Posted on 12/7/16 at 8:53 am
Posted on 12/7/16 at 8:53 am
I was 3 years old and this stands out as my first unambiguous memory. I still have the scene firmly etched in my memory.
My parents got us all in the living room to listen to the radio. My brother was 12 and he and my dad were steaming mad. My mother was crying - I think that is what seared the episode in my memory - I had never seen her cry before, or since. We lived in a sense of anxiety and dread for the next week or so.
I had no idea what was really going on, but the sense of the experience made me believe that something really bad had happened - and I do recall hoping that it was not my fault.
Anyone else have real time experience with the event?
My parents got us all in the living room to listen to the radio. My brother was 12 and he and my dad were steaming mad. My mother was crying - I think that is what seared the episode in my memory - I had never seen her cry before, or since. We lived in a sense of anxiety and dread for the next week or so.
I had no idea what was really going on, but the sense of the experience made me believe that something really bad had happened - and I do recall hoping that it was not my fault.
Anyone else have real time experience with the event?
Posted on 12/7/16 at 8:56 am to ChineseBandit58
I am a long way from having that memory but will check back to see if there are others who post on this board who remember this day 75 years ago.
By the way, it would be a great day for those in the area who have the time to make it to the WWII museum in N.O. So sad to me that the generation that experienced WWII first hand is vanishing.
By the way, it would be a great day for those in the area who have the time to make it to the WWII museum in N.O. So sad to me that the generation that experienced WWII first hand is vanishing.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 8:57 am to ChineseBandit58
dont take this the wrong way but dang wish my grandpa posted on TD. If he was a live that is.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 8:57 am to ChineseBandit58
Damn!
And I though I was an old frick
And I though I was an old frick
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:04 am to N.O. via West-Cal
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So sad to me that the generation that experienced WWII first hand is vanishing.
Father Time is a cruel a-hole.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:05 am to ChineseBandit58
No before my time.
But when very young I remember my grandmother crying. When I asked her why, she said that that day was her brother's birthday, and he had been so young when he died on the Arizona. Years later I learned what an Arizona was.
The power of a woman's tears is incredible!
God bless all the boys who didn't come home.
But when very young I remember my grandmother crying. When I asked her why, she said that that day was her brother's birthday, and he had been so young when he died on the Arizona. Years later I learned what an Arizona was.
The power of a woman's tears is incredible!
God bless all the boys who didn't come home.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:11 am to tke857
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wish my grandpa posted on TD.
As do I.
My cohort was missing from WWII. My dad and FIL served in WWI. As did my uncles. My brother served in Korea, as did most of my cousins. My generation served in Vietnam.
I had one cousin - called him "uncle" because he was such good friends with my dad - who actually did serve in WWII, but he never made to to any combat zone - entered service at the very end of the war.
My entire youth was consumed with the war effort. Lived in Vernon Parish, home of Ft Polk (called Camp Polk back then) Had maneuvers all around our place out in the country. Mom opened a boarding house to serve the people brought to Leesville for the construction buildup at the Camp.
Later when we moved back to our rural country place, lots of soldiers came to our house for supper - Mom was a great cook and dad made friends with all of the soldiers. The night before they decamped one group asked us if we wanted anything. Dad asked for some barbed wire. Next morning he had a mountain of barbed wire piled up next to the barn. I spent the next ten years of my life helping string that stuff up around our property.
I asked for - and I still don't understand why - some K-rations!!!! They left me at least a half dozen cases of the stuff. Several decades later I opened some of it up and it was still edible - used it on hunting trips.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:14 am to ChineseBandit58
Thanks for sharing. The Silent Generation are the first who pretty much don't know a world without the threat of nuclear war.
I'm insanely jealous of people your age because you got to see the beginning of rock n roll as a teen.
I'm insanely jealous of people your age because you got to see the beginning of rock n roll as a teen.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:20 am to ChineseBandit58
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ChineseBandit58
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:20 am to ChineseBandit58
That's before my time as I was born in 65. Even my parents came after that. I do spend a considerable amount of time with my MIL who was born in 26. She has some amazing stories about those times. She has her sister became nurses to help the war effort. She was a VA nurse for 50 years!
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:22 am to ChineseBandit58
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Does anyone else here actually remember 12/7/41 ??
No but now that you mention it I would like to ask my Mom and Dad about that day; they both were 10 years old at the time.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:24 am to ChineseBandit58
Great stories, thanks for sharing
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:38 am to ChineseBandit58
My first big event memory was Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, so not quite old enough to remember the beginning of WWII, although what a memory that is for you.
This post was edited on 12/7/16 at 9:40 am
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:42 am to ChineseBandit58
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I was 3 years old and this stands out as my first unambiguous memory
My father was also 3 years old that day. He was born in October of 1938. He says he doesn't remember it. But he does remember the mobilization. And all the men in uniform. And the radio constantly with war news.
His father was a farmer. So he had a farmer exemption from the draft until the summer of '45 when they were raising an additional 5 million men for the invasion of Japan. So his dad went off to boot camp, but was sent home when Japan surrendered.
He says he vividly remembers his father walking through the door in his uniform in Sept of 1945.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:42 am to ChineseBandit58
My Mom was talking about this yesterday evening. How they gathered around a single radio, 3 families at once as the batteries were rationed out sparingly. She spoke of my grandmother and great aunt praying for her 2 cousins, one stationed aboard the USS Arizona the other, his younger brother, also assigned to Pearl Harbor (and the youngest brother just a few miles from where my family was praying).
All 3 of the brothers are gone now, just in the last few years. I only got to meet the 2 younger ones and had no idea any had been there.
All 3 of the brothers are gone now, just in the last few years. I only got to meet the 2 younger ones and had no idea any had been there.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:46 am to ChineseBandit58
it was 42 years before my time and it was 10 years before my father's time.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:49 am to ChineseBandit58
My dad was either 4 or 5, he said one of his first memories also, his birthday just happened to be on Dec 7th and thought all the fuss and excitement were over his birthday.
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:49 am to ChineseBandit58
My grandmother lived about ten miles from the Pacific coast in Oregon. In the first few months after Pearl Harbor, there was a real fear of a Japanese invasion on the west coast. She said it was a fearful time, and her older brothers feared it enough that they made preparations to go up in the mountains and fight if the Japanese had actually invaded. They all enlisted later on (two Army Air Force, one Army, one Marine) and all served overseas. I was fortunate enough to grow up knowing these men, as well as my grandfather who was in the USAAF, and they were willing to share their stories. My grandmother became a WAC, learned Morse code, and decoded messages for the military. She said the typing skills she learned then is what prepared her for her later career as a school secretary at Covington High.
This post was edited on 12/7/16 at 9:50 am
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:51 am to ChineseBandit58
Legit Cool Story Bro!
Posted on 12/7/16 at 9:53 am to ChineseBandit58
My first hazy memory like that was for the moon landing. I don't remember much about it as I was wasn't quite 3, but I do remember my mom sitting my brother and I in front of an old black and white television and telling us how important this event was.
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