Wes;
I can't remember Pearl Harbor but I sure remember V-J Day!
When I was a kid, we lived on the Isle of Palms outside of Charleston, SC
and there were times that burning ships could be seen in the distance at
night. German submarines patrolled the coast and torpedoed ships that left
Charleston in convoys bound for Europe or the Mediteranean. After a
hurricane, parts of the Charleston harbor's anti-submarine nets washed up on
the beach in front of our beach house.
Later, we moved to Myrtle beach and lived in a house on the beach. It was
built up on pilings and at high tide the water would be under the house. I
remember the Coast Guard riding horses up and down the beach checking that
everyone had his blackout shades drawn at night so no light would be
visible. U-boats used shore lights as navigation aids, so everything was
blacked out at night.
I also remember pulling my little wagon around the neighborhood collecting
scrap metal for the war effort and my mother crying when my Dad had to go
overseas. We were lucky-- my Dad came home but so many Dads didn't.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: W S Potter [mailto:wester6935@attbi.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 12:31 AM
To: Glenn Ridlen; FastmetalBDF@aol.com; jonw@up.net; lsr_man@yahoo.com;
rtmack@concentric.net; ddahlgren@snet.net
Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Ancient History (non-LSR)
I remember sitting in the hallway of our apartment on December 7, 1941 and
asking my mother what the bombing of Pearl Harbor was going to mean to us.
Probably the single most vivid memory up to that time.
Wes
on 12/11/02 8:42 AM, Glenn Ridlen at gridlen@yahoo.com wrote:
> FastmetalBDF@aol.com wrote:
> I can remember when my dad took me to see Admiral Richard Byrd's
> Expedition to Antarctica Convoy pass by on Route 9 near Worcester, MA,
>
> Kind of puts things in perspective when you can relate to things that most
> people think are ancient history...... at 64 I am only 7 years younger
than
> the Empire state building
>
> Glenn
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