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Sorry for the Length but...
OK ...my mother grew up in Hawaii along with her parents and my grandmother's parents. My great grandmother's brother was in Pearl Harbor along with with my great-grand father on my father's side...(Did that make sense??) my grand parents were infants. My mom infuses this historic story (about Pearl Harbor) into us every year around this time because it is so poignant in our family history. Although both men were not right in Pearl Harbor during the raid they were immediatly called to report to duty. Both were military doctors and immediately left their families to help the wounded.
The stories my famliy tells about what they had to go through and then for years after is amazing. Black outs were common and they had to paint their windows black or if they went out after curfew they had to drive with no lights on. YIKES. My parents' school became a barracks and they had to always carry gas masks in wooden boxes around their neck. Waikiki was surrounded in barb wire because they were afraid of mini subs coming to shore etc.. I consider my self very lucky to not have to live through that mess. Since then my grandpa's dad, has died, and just recently my other relative who wrote a book about the experience and went every Saturday to sign it at the Pearl Harbor Memorial has passed away. I hope people rememeber the sacrifice they made and it makes me proud to be an AMERICAN.
Thank you for bumping this thread.
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