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Well it was a shock believe me, I couldn't believe it. And at the time they had the mps driving everybody out of the Presidio. And when I got home it was just a shock. Well I was in my bedroom calling my daughters and my nieces hair.

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And then she uh the other daughter came home and she says mama I heard that they attacked Pearl Harbor. And the first thing we did was go on our knees and pray. I never forget that day. Yes, I do remember. It was early in the morning

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reading the sunday papers at home in indiana. Yeah, I was 11 years old and I remember being most upset and my dad patted me on the head and said now honey don't worry about it, it's not going to involve you. And but still in all, I

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just couldn't imagine what this was going to be like. You know, I was in Glendale California when I was 12 years old and we were making soldier molds outside and we heard about it and we decided well we're going to the movie that afternoon. We decided

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we'd better go because we thought we might not get to go again. I was at the Bronx zoo visiting and as we came home we stopped someplace for a drink and we heard the news of Pearl Harbor in a bar. It really shook us up. Good,

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great. Well I was in Fort meade Maryland serving in the army at the time and of course I felt very badly about the entire situation. I was I would imagine about five or six years old and uh, my reaction was just sit there. There was a

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war on, I didn't know much about it a few years, a few years later, here I am. I was in Los Angeles. I had two little kids at that age, 1 3.5, 17. I grabbed one out of the high chair, the other one of my arms

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ran out and stood under a high tension wire. Why then, who stops to think?