Re: Pearl Harbor Day - where were you?
Ron: Let me be the first. I was attending a life drawing class at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, and heard the news of Pearl Harbor on our break for lunch. The general reaction was anger and indignation at these people for daring to attack us. I wanted to enlist immediately but couldn't because I wasn't yet 17. My father, who had been in the Navy in the First World War, wanted to go back in but was rejected (he was 49). My brother, who was alost 19, enlisted just after the first of the year and became a torpedoman. I enlisted on my 17th birthday and served as a radioman, mostly in the Armed Guard, until my 21st. -- Fran
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