My Dad’s parents were in the Panama Canal Zone on Dec. 7.
Granddaddy was coast artillery. With communications all screwed up Granddaddy took charge. He and several soldiers went up in the control tower at the air strip and spent the day with binoculars and rifles, waiting for invading Japs. Grandmother organized all the wives and they sewed blackout curtains for every window at the post.
My DIL’s parent were in their early teens on that awful day-——and they lived on Oahu,one in Honolulu,one in Kaneohe.
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