JK> > Anyone around know what event took place 70-years ago today?
 
JK> I only heard about the battle at Pearl Harbor from my Dad.   The ship he
JK> was on before it sank (not during that action of course) was the Quincy.
 
JK> We kids who couldn't know what that sinking ship was like, used to be
JK> mesmerized by the tales Dad and his friend, Hammersmith would tell us
JK> around the dinner table.  We could only imagine what it was like for
JK> those who suffered during that war.
 
My brother joined the Navy and was halfway across the Pacific when the
Japanese surrendered.  He wrote to me about how disappointed he was he didn't
get to see any action.  After what we saw back home in subsequent newsreels, I
thought he should consider himself very lucky he didn't.  The late director
John Ford was in the Navy stationed at Pearl during the attack and made a
documentary of it.  I can only imagine the horror those people there went
through with the bombing, strafing and not knowing what was going to happen
next.  Down here, we suffer none of that and the closest we will ever come to
it is hurricanes, which have "To whom it may concern" as their format.  That
said, we did go to bed at night during WWII wondering if we would see the next
day.  That in itself was a horrifying experience.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

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