Remembering Another December Morning
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It was just another Sunday morning for Elizabeth Ann and her four brothers and sisters, walking to the beach with their father before church while their mother cared for the new baby.
"My father would take us out to the beach quite often to watch the planes come in and take off," she said from the living room of her Springfield home.
The island was put under martial law, the only time in U.S. history the military had governance over residents.
LIKE OTHER places in the country, Hawaii was subjected to blackouts nightly and air raid drills, but Kenealy said she and her friends grew accustomed to wearing gas masks in shoulder bags everywhere they went.
"I was an air raid warden in my school," she said, smiling as she remembered a role many children had to play during World War II.
Normandy just after D-Day, June 6, 1944.
For most of his military career, Rue patrolled the sand dunes along the Maryland coast, driving large, heavy trucks that could be used to evacuate people if another attack occurred along the East Coast.
"We kept watch for submarines off the coast, just in case the Japanese decided to attack us that way," he said.
He and his fellow soldiers also kept vigilant during blackouts, making sure no light could be seen from any windows or homes.
"Even the Jeeps we drove, we had to cover the headlights," Rue said. "We only had little pinholes cut out so we could see the truck in front of us at night."
Still, life in the National Guard was not all bad for Rue, who twice lived near churches filled with nuns who baked cakes, cookies and other treats for the servicemen.
That speech and the way he gave it were unforgettable," Reynolds said. "I remember going home that night and talking with my family about it, how impressive he was and how important the school superintendent made the occasion."
The following week, during a church service, Reynolds and the other young men and women in his youth group were taken outside.
"We were told that a boy from our town, who had dropped out of school a year earlier to join the Navy, had been on the Arizona at the time and was killed," Reynolds said.
The Arizona was sunk during the attack, and all the men on board were drowned. The ship still lies at the bottom of Pearl Harbor and had become a memorial for the attack and those who died there.
"George Fowler was not a member of our church, but it was such a small town that we all knew him," he said. "We all stood outside, under the stars for some reason, and held hands and prayed for him."
Reynolds decided to join the Navy after completing high school with the hopes of being a minister to soldiers during the war. Instead, he earned a pharmacy degree and became a Methodist minister after completing his enlistment.
"I wanted to pastor to the men who had served in the war, but I also felt I should do my part because it was only right," he said.
Reynolds served in the Pacific theater of the war for three years before returning home.
"My parents had to sign a waiver to let me join because I was only 17 at the time," he said. "When my own son wanted to join the Army during Vietnam and asked me to sign the same waiver, I called my mother to ask her how she could have done the same for me, it was so hard."
FOR BOBBI ASHTON, the attack on Pearl Harbor did not frighten her in the way it did most people.
But when I came downstairs and saw my mother crying, I knew things were bad."
Ashton said her mother was the kind of woman who believed in staying calm and strong for the sake of her children, even after the death of their father a few years earlier. Seeing tears streaming down her face the day after the attack was the first time Ashton had ever seen her mother cry.
"I remember asking her what was wrong, and she said that all our dear boys were going to die," Ashton recalled.
Her stepfather worked for Goodyear Tires, and the family eventually relocated from Akron, Ohio to Lincoln, Neb. for his job. Like all families, they had to ration all their food and supplies like paper, tin foil and gasoline, but because of his "essential" job, the family was never in danger of going hungry or running out of gasoline.
"My mother once dropped her books of ration stamps for our family, and the next day a farmer called her to say he had them and would hold onto them for her," Ashton said.
Her other strong memory of the war involves going to the movies and seeing numerous movies of German soldiers, goose-stepping in long parade lines.
"We saw film after film of tanks on the newsreels they played before movies," she said. "That terrified me because everything was so rigid."
Ashton also remembers sitting on their living room floor with skeins of khaki yarn on her arms, holding them still while her mother knitted socks, scarves and hats for soldiers in the war.
My mother was doing her part to help the war effort before Pearl Harbor ever happened."
Although their stories are very different, all four believe the United States is still vulnerable to a surprise attack like the one at Pearl Harbor, or more recently in New York and at the Pentagon. Vigilant security, constant watchfulness and preparation for what might be may not prevent another attack, they said, but it may make planning one a little more difficult.
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