Jan - My husband is part native Hawaiian. His mother was born in Hawaii on Oahu. Her father was in the Army Reserves at the time. They lived over Pearl Harbor and on Dec. 7, 1941 her father put her and her family under a mattress to keep them safe from the strafe going through their home and ran to help. Her mother saw a bomb go down the smokestack of the Arizona from their home that day. It's an amazing story. My mother-in-law was only 2 years old at the time. Eventually her father shipped them all by submarine to San Francisco and eventually they came here to Missouri. My husband's grandfather, Col Samuel Kamu Toomey, Jr., would have been in Honolulu on VJ Day. This is terrific and I've forwarded it to his family. They will really enjoy this. Stacey Dietiker In a message dated 5/31/2010 4:01:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time, jan4gen@verizon.net writes: VJ Day in Honolulu - August 14, 1945 www.iagenweb.org/decatur ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IADECATU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message