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In reply to the discussion: Do you remember what you were doing when you heard the news about Pearl Harbor? [View all]HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)1. Sort of...I remember watching Walter Cronkite's "The Big Picture"
documentary series in the mid to late 1950's. Sponsored by Prudential Insurance. That series is mostly where I learned about things called WWII and the Korean Conflict, and the result is I can't think of Diamond Head without being reminded of the 'Rock of Gibraltar'
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Do you remember what you were doing when you heard the news about Pearl Harbor? [View all]
raccoon
Dec 2014
OP
They would probably be in their late seventies, early eighties to have a recollection of the event.
DemocratSinceBirth
Dec 2014
#2
Please! It's "internment" not "interment" (unless they were being literally buried in a camp.)
PSPS
Dec 2014
#18
My Army Air Force grandfather would sometimes uncharacteristically speak of "Japs."
hunter
Dec 2014
#35
My father had been transported with his family to concentration camp in Riga a few months before...
stevenleser
Dec 2014
#15
I was 3 months old and my parents had taken me to a movie with them. I do not of course remember
jwirr
Dec 2014
#16
I was a year and a half old and my parents took me with them to their favorite watering hole, truly.
monmouth4
Dec 2014
#25
Not surprising, few DUers would have remembered actually hearing the news of this day...
MrMickeysMom
Dec 2014
#26