Pearl Harbor
While I'm pretty sure that there are not many of the men and women who were there on that day in History, who are still out driving their RVs around, I don't doubt though, that there are plenty of chi...
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Francesca Knowles wrote:
Though none of my relatives were at Pearl Harbor, my two Uncles, my Father, and even my MOTHER enlisted in the Navy the week following that terrible day. All served until the war was over, and all but Mom are gone now.
THANKS TO YOU ALL, WHEREVER YOU MAY BE!
Here quoting myself, with apologies.
I want to thank the O.P. for posting this thread in honor of all those who died at Pearl Harbor and for all those who, inspired by that terrible event, stepped up to serve Our Country's interest...that decision taken perhaps at least in part so that the deaths and losses incurred at Pearl Harbor were not in vain.
My Mother- Yeoman second Class Maryjane "Smitty" Smith Keep- died today, during the moments when I wrote the above words. I was unaware at the time that I wrote them that she was already on her way to join those of her generation that had gone before.
I think it beautiful and entirely appropriate that she went away to join them on this, the 72nd anniversary of an event that so shaped her life.
She was the bravest person I ever knew.
Goodbye, Mama!
