In a message dated 12/8/2003 1:01:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, GABERRIE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > X-Message: #4 > Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 16:04:46 EST > From: Bigbill4@aol.com > To: GABERRIE-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <4f.37f7e7e2.2d04efee@aol.com> > Subject: [GABERRIE] Pearl Harbor > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > I remember the radio Broadcasts announcing Pearl Harbor, and was > dumbfounded. > The next day, as a 9th grader in School in South Georgia, I remember the > teachers bringing radios to school, and we listened to Franklin Delano > Roosevelt, > asking Congress to declare a declaration of war against the Japanese, and > later that day against Germany and Italy. > A historical moment in my life, and I served in the U.S. Navy before the war > > was over. You could say that "I Remember Pearl Harbor." > Bill > I'd like to add my thanks to you, Bill for your service for all of us & for sharing your memory of that time...... I lost a cousin in the South Pacific, HENRY WILL JONES, Capt USMC during that war..... He was born in what was then Milltown, Berrien Co, GA (now Lakeland, Lanier Co, GA) to parents, ELIZABETH (HOWELL) JONES & HENRY H. JONES, both dec'd. A few years ago, Jay Shaw, GA Rep., in the GA House introduced a Resolution which was passed, naming a bridge over the Alapaha River (between Homerville & Lakeland) for HENRY WILL JONES. There was a dedication ceremony for this & only wish I'd known in time to go...... This bridge is just a mile or so from his old home, which was the Lakeland Hotel, owned by his parents - ELIZABETH (HOWELL) JONES, or Aunt "Beth" as she to me, ran the boarding house which seemed so huge to me when I was a child, when we would visit down in Lakeland, she was my Dad's sister......Now the house is owned by their other son, Robert Jones & wife, Peggy who have made it into their home....It's a beautiful old place w/huge oak tree w/Spanish moss hanging on it's limbs.....There used to be teachers who boarded there during the school year, also railroad people when it was being built - also my Uncle WILL HOWELL & Aunt Ruby (Darsey) lived there - Uncle Will had the drugstore there.... If we don't remember, we are likely to repeat the errors of the past & we need to pass on to our children & grandchildren our memories before we forget also! Thanks again, Bill - also thanks to one who posted Sue Hancock's ph number - does anyone know if she has an email? ttyl, Sarah Howell Studstill