Sally, you certainly stirred up memories. Although I was a mere 8 years of age, I remember daddy coming home that night and telling us that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and turned on the radio to listen to both Gabriel Heattor (sp) and Walter Winchell. We had a battery operated radio and the 6 o'clock and the 9 o'clock news were a must for him. I remember later of airplanes flying over our house and I was so scared they were Japanese that I took all my brothers & sisters and we crowded into our parents bedroom closet as it was "really" dark in there and I didn't think they could see us. At that time (and I being the eldest) there were 6 of us (we eventually became 12 of us). I remember the huge Air Warden sign we had displayed next to the kitchen in the hallway going to the upstairs. The razor strap hung next to that (weird that I would remember that <grin> now). Three of my mother's 5 brothers served in WWII, and they came home. Many of my mother's cousins were there also. The letters we wrote that were v-mail and the words that were sometimes marked out so as to not give an actual destination/site where they were written from. I wrote to the eldest uncle (my favorite ??) who was in the Navy in the South Pacific. I still have his picture with his 16-month growth beard. Thanks for stirring those memories. Antoinette waughtel@oz.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sally Rolls Pavia" <sally@paviafamily.com> To: <NEWGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 11:01 AM Subject: [NEWGEN] MEMORIES OF PEARL HARBOR IN YOUR FAMILY HISTORY > "Yesterday, December 7, 1941--a date which will live in infamy--the > United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attached by > naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." These words, spoken by > Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his war message to Congress on 8 > December 1941, still stir emotions. The memory of that day is often > permanently embedded in the minds and hearts of everyone who was old > enough to remember it. > > Memories of historical events like the bombing of Pearl Harbor can > add a deeper, more personal element to your family history, tying > your family to world history and placing them in the context of the > times in which they lived. Were you born then? If so, do you remember > how you heard the news of Pearl Harbor? Where were you? What were > your feelings? If you were not born yet, or you were too young to > remember, are there other family members who do remember it? Ask them > about it. Write down and preserve these memories for future > generations, so that they too can see and more thoroughly understand > the personal impact of these events on generations past. > > PEARL HARBOR DAY LINKS AND RESOURCES > > Pearl Harbor Survivors Association > http://members.aol.com/phsasecy97 > Includes a list of casualties > > Pearl Harbor Archive > http://www.sperry-marine.com/pearl/pearlh.htm > > The History Place > http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pearl.htm > Sequence of events and some photos > > U.S.S. Arizona > http://www.library.arizona.edu/images/USS_Arizona/USS_Arizona.shtml > History, photo sources, and an incredible list of links > > U.S.S. Arizona Memorial > http://www.nps.gov/usar/ > > Air Raid on Pearl Harbor > Today in History, American Memory Project, Library of Congress > http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec07.html > --- For more information from the Library of Congress, search the > American Memory Project at > http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html. (My search for "Pearl > Harbor" gave 240 results of both images and text.) > > NARA American Originals Exhibit: > "Air Raid on Pearl Harbor. This Is No Drill" > http://www.nara.gov/exhall/originals/fdr.html > Radiogram and FDR Congressional address, 8 Dec 1941 > > NARA WWII Exhibit: A People at War. > http://www.nara.gov/exhall/people/people.html > > Pearl Harbor Day Page > http://www.ccdemo.org/MtDiablo/PearlHarbor/PearlHarborDay.html > > used with permission of Juliana Smith, Editor of Ancestry Daily News > from 7 Dec 2000 Ancestry Daily News > > > ==== NEWGEN Mailing List ==== > ROOTSWEB..............R.I.P. >