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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]hunter
(38,385 posts)42. My father-in-law witnessed Atomic Bombs up close in the Nevada desert.
Marching across ground zero when things were still on fire. He was used as a guinea pig.
Then the Navy sent him to Japan in support of data collection.
My father-in-law is a pacifist. Deciding to be an unarmed U.S. Navy medic was better than the alternative. He escaped hot war in Korea by dumb luck.
As mostly Native American in Japan, he passed on initial appearance as Japanese, and a wartime Japanese widow "adopted" him as her own son.
Stories not mine to tell.
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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