Pearl Harbor attack stirs rememberances

Kimball, Carol W.

50th Anniversary of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
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This article by Carol Kimball discusses the 50th anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor by Imperial Japan. The article begins by noting that "The Day" newspaper had published a section commemorating the 50th anniversay, and the Westerly Sun, the first newspaper to publish the disaster in 1941, did as well. Kimball goes on to share her recollections of the event and how she and her husband felt. She shares that she first heard the news on the radio as an abrupt interruption to the New York Philharmonic. She mentions that the news did not feel real at first. Kimball includes excerpts from her husband's diary on the day of the attack, and the next day, when it became clear that the United States had declared war. Kimball goes on to mention that her husband served as an air-raid warden. She writes about how everyone was preparing for an attack on the east coast. This was the beginning of the U.S. involvement in the Second World War. Kimball wrote about her experiences with rationing. The article also mentions William Seely, a boy from Groton who died in the attack, although this was not known until later. Kimball also writes about how she would later lose loved ones in the war, and that Pearl Harbor was the start of it all.

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