I’ve published this photo with a little bit of story on here before. It’s worth sharing again, I think, because of the way a bucolic day for my mother, Uncle Gerald, and friends became something else. The date on the back of the photo is December 7, 1941.
The day the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked.
A few days ago, there was a shooting at Pearl Harbor: three killed, including the gunman. A friend’s son (civilian) works in the area where the shooting happened but wasn’t there at the time. I am so, so glad he’s okay.
twinsies… my friends son works there as a civil engineer …. and was not on duty at the time. Also my American grandpa was on the Oklahoma and was injured… out of the war