We next went to Sunday school and church and I remember all of the adults were talking to each other in low tones with stunned looks on their faces. Both of them stood in front of the radio with these shocked and unbelieving faces! I never forgot that experience. I had never seen a look on her face like that before. All of a sudden she turned off the water and came over to stand in front of the radio. My mother was at the other end of the counter standing in front of the kitchen sink washing a dish.
The announcer was very loud and excited but I didn’t know what he was talking about. I was five years old and standing at the end of the kitchen counter next to the black art deco style radio. I never forgot when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Many of the vets I interviewed asked me why I was interested in World War II.
