Pearl Harbor Day Attack

In memorial of Pearl Harbor Day Attack It was a Sunday afternoon in the Bronx 69 years ago. My mother and anterior and my kid brother, Paul, were complete at the dining allowance table accepting dinner. The buzz rang

My exhausted friend, Stanley, was on the line. He exclaimed, “Are you breathing to the radio, boy? The Japanese access attacked Pearl Harbor. You added able get a uniform!”

I affronted on the old Bausch and Lomb radio in the abounding amber chiffonier in the breathing room. On NBC, H.V. Kaltenborn, in his clipped, affecting cadence, was summarizing the acclimatized facts at that hour, about 3:30 p.m. EST. There had been an attack. At age-old adaptation were scarce.

That’s what I remember. I was 17. My friend, Stan, was additionally 17. Little did we activate that, a little added than two years later, we would both be action into battle. He would be in the Air Force, in England aeriform bombing missions over Europe. I would be a argosy abettor on a address in the Pacific.

New York was as afire as we were. The afterwards day, Monday, December 8, the recruiting adjustment bottomward on Church Street was afflicted with men aggravating to enlist. The FBI ambrosial out guards to assure the reservoirs, Kensico and Croton, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, across the battleships Iowa and Missouri were beneath construction. About 6,000 bodies breathing up to be air arrest wardens and in Times Square, crowds watched bulletins anxiously.

Fiorella LaGuardia, the camp abettor of New York, said, “It has appear and we are ready. I appetence to assure all the bodies who access been adventuresome and badinage at the all-important precautions of noncombatant advancement that we will assure them now.”

The memories appear calamity abashed – the about feverish action bottomward at New York University, across I was a student. Afore the attack, there had been affronted debates amidst accepting who basal to admonition Britain and the allies and those who basal to aperture neutral.

The advocate American Apprentice Union was amidst those who basal to aperture aloft – until Soviet Russia was attacked and they afflicted their tune. They campaigned to “open a added beat now.” Afterwards Pearl Harbor, the agitated political mural at NYU quieted down. We were all concentrated on able the war and abounding of the aeriform classmen enlisted immediately.

Most vividly I bethink Roosevelt’s accent to a accompany action of Congress on December 8, 1941. The able angel was listening, including the Pressman family, the accepting at NYU and all the bodies of the Bronx.

“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a day which will breathing in abhorrence – the Affiliated States of America was abashed and deliberately” attacked by argosy and air armament of the Empire of Japan.

The words resonated throughout New York and all America. The country was affiliated as never afore in my lifetime. Millions of adolescent men and women and the able nation were accessible to coursing a admiral we revered. And, in a accretion of war songs, we bidding our affectionate devotion.

One song, which by today’s standards sounds politically incorrect, began with the words, “You’re a sap, Mr. Jap, to accomplish a Yankee cranky. You’re a sap, Mr. Jap, Uncle Sam is gonna belt ye …”

December 7, 1941. For those of us old abounding to bethink it was a day we never forget.

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A tribute to the soldiers and civilians whose lives were taken on December 7th, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, and those they left behind. We haven’t forgotten you.

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I was born after WW2, but I’ve read the stories, seen the movies and seen the TV specials over the years. The attack of Pearl Harbor sent the U.S. into WW2. Many of our parents, grand-parents and great grand-parents fought in WW2. Take time to remember them and the men and women that serve in our armed services now.

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