I remember my grandmother telling me of her brother Jospeh B. Lewis (known as JB, was in the Pearl Harbor of the attack...she said that he was in the barracks shaving getting ready for Sunday services when he heard the bombs, He ran thru the barracks, that they were under some sort of an attack....Uncle JB retired from the Navy, then died few months later. Then my husband's grandfather's brother Clift Hill (I think was his name)...I believed he died upon the Arizona. Kim --part1_1ea.14eece7f.2d04cf41_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_1ea.14eece7f.2d04cf41_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-xg04.mx.aol.com (rly-xg04.mail.aol.com [172.20.115.201]) by air-xg04.mail.aol.com (v97.10) with ESMTP id MAILINXG42-4663fd36df0248; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 13:14:33 -0500 Received: from mta11.adelphia.net (mta11.adelphia.net [68.168.78.205]) by rly-xg04.mx.aol.com (v97.10) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINXG46-4663fd36df0248; Sun, 07 Dec 2003 13:14:08 -0500 Received: from CUPOLA ([68.233.189.172]) by mta11.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with SMTP id <[email protected]> for <[email protected]>; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:14:12 -0500 Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "Earnie Breeding" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Alabama] Pearl Harbor Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:14:21 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-AOL-IP: 68.168.78.205 I remember two people on Pearl Harbour day. Thearon A. Blankenship S1C of USS Arizona. He still is a crew member serving on his duty station. 21 years old, A native of Morgan Co., Al. According to my genealogy chart he was my 4th cousin once removed. Growing up he was cousin Thearon. There is an empty grave at New Center Baptist Church in Morgan Co. The headstone gives the dates of birth and death and states. Remember Pearl Harbour. The other is not a relative, except by profession he is my brother. I was Navy he was Army. Col John Wesley Loud was a First Lieutenant in the field artillary, stationed at Ft De Russy. His large guns were too big to fire at the attacking planes, so he grabbed a Springfield and shot away. `He and his bride of 4 months had hosted a party the night before at the O club. In a few days she was bound stateside while John went south and participated in the Solomons campaign. After that he came back stateside for a few months and the headed to Europe where he participated in many large battles as a field intelligence officer. He then was active in the Military government of Germany and returned to Civilian life in 1948. Like me he kept his military affilation through the reserves. He retired a COL. He and I were in the Old Guard of the Gate City Guard together. We lost John this past year and we do miss him so. Rest in peace brothers. Earnie ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 11:36 AM Subject: [Alabama] Pearl Harbor > > > > REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR > > DECEMBER 7, 1941 > > > > ==== ALABAMA Mailing List ==== > Alabama help! http://www.rootsweb.com/~algenweb/index.html > Alabama Sites! http://www.stategensites.com/ > > > --part1_1ea.14eece7f.2d04cf41_boundary--