In re: Pearl Harbor

[PCIntern]

Something I’ve thought about for a number of years:

Soon there will be no surviving military individuals who were present on that horrifying day


https://www.inquirer.com/wires/ap/pearl-harbor-survivors-remembrance-ceremony-20251207.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=ios&utm_campaign=app_ios_homefeed_share&utm_content=VPHI2HG6VRDNDGLKAODR22J2DM

My dad, who talked little of his four years in the Pacific Theatre, did tell me that he decided that Sunday night to enlist. He said that he knew he’d be killed, he was not a physically impressive man. As it turned out, it was often a matter of luck as to who survived, he was lucky, the rest of the first platoon to which he was assigned was not.