Posted by Ultradog MN on December 07, 2011 at 17:14:06 from (65.103.0.240):
In Reply to: 70 years ago today posted by old on December 07, 2011 at 14:02:48:
My dad spoke of it like it was yeaterday. He had left Aitkin MN to go to an uncle in San Francisco 3 months before chasing work. He and a cousin were walking across the Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday morning. Bridge was only 8 years old and still quite a modern marvel. Cheap entertainment for a poor 19 yo hick on a Sunday morning after Mass. Passers by and automobilists shouted the news. They went across then had to walk back. Double timed it on the way home. Scared the J---s could blow the bridge. No one knew what was next. 6 weeks later he was in the Army. Wore glasses so he couldn't join the Navy. Did his time in the Army Signal Corps on telephone poles hooking up wires. All well behind the lines but kept leapfrogging throughout the Pacific.
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