Neil,
I was sitting on the living room floor with my folks listening to the big
floor model wooden radio when Pearl Harbor was attacked and my dad and I
were in a flat bottom wooden boat fishing in the Scioto river in Columbus,
Oh. when people on shore started shooting guns. We rowed to shore to find
out what was going on. They said Japan had just surrendered. The war was
over. We loaded up and went home.
I also remember what I was doing when Kennedy was assasinated and when his
brother Robert was killed. Significant emotional events have a way of
sticking with us.
Howard Nafzger
----- Original Message -----
From: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
To: "'W S Potter'" <wester6935@attbi.com>; "Glenn Ridlen"
<gridlen@yahoo.com>; <FastmetalBDF@aol.com>; <jonw@up.net>;
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Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:18 AM
Subject: RE: Ancient History (non-LSR)
> 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
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