Posted by gun guru on December 07, 2011 at 14:39:59 from (75.128.139.102):
In Reply to: 70 years ago today posted by old on December 07, 2011 at 14:02:48:
My Granddad was a Major in the Army air corps at that time, Pilot too. My dad was a 14 month old baby and on that fateful day my grandparents were sitting down for Sunday dinner at my great grandparents house and my grandfather got a call from his commanding officer...."you need to get to base" "The 8aps bombed the Pearl Harbor Naval base" My granddad was sent to run an airforce base in Florida and train pilots. My granddad was 28 on that day 12-7-41. When the war ended my granddad was a Lt. Colonel. He died in 1998. He had a very impressive Funeral ceremony given by the local VFW. I do miss him very much, 15 minutes after my wife and I got married in 1995 my granddad looked me straight in the eye and said, "you need to get busy getting me a great grandson" Well I did but my boy was born in 2001, too late for him to be seen by my granddad.
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