Remember Pearl Harbor Day.

[paracarl44]

Most of our parents remember December 7, 1941 when the Japanese made a surprise attack on our Navel Base at Pearl Harbor.

 

[rdhd]

Many of those parents are no longer with us (mine among them). Still, we need to remember, and to be ever vigilant that such a thing never happens again. Prayers to all that lost their lives that day.

 

[milagros317]

Thanks for the reminder, Carl.

 

[paracarl44]

Thanks for the reminder, Carl.

When you really think about it that day changed the lives of all of us.

 

[milagros317]

When you really think about it that day changed the lives of all of us.

Indeed so. My father was drafted in October 1941 and inducted into the U.S. Army for a one-year tour of duty. Obviously, when the attack on Pearl Harbor came two months later, he was "extended for the duration" as they put it then. He got home in January 1946 after serving (among many other places) with General MacArthur in the occupation forces in Tokyo.

My brother was born in October 1946. I am sure that my parents would have started a family much earlier if not for the attack on Pearl Harbor, and it is not clear that I would have been born at all; they might well have had their two children, which was the number they planned to have, in 1942 and 1944.