I remember - coming home from somewhere that morning and the next door neighbor telling us "We're at war!" I said "With who?" He answered, "We don't know." I went inside, turned on the television,and remained glued to it the rest of the day.
I also remember that we were due to fly to California the 13th, and talking with air lines about the air shut down (how strange to see and hear no airplanes in the sky for two or three days). We got a flight on the 15th,crammed with people trying to get home, and someone saying to me "You're going on a vacation, now?" I tried to explain that our 50th anniversary was the 22nd and "No terrorists are going to stop us from this family reunion and this occasion."
I remember the Columbine disaster, and the Challenger, and VJ day and VE day, and Pearl Harbor - I was 11 years old then - I remember Ration stamps, and Savings stamps and bonds and scrap drives. I collected milk pod silk to go into life vests and kept scrap books of Pacific sea maps, and read books like "We were Expendable" and "The Raft". I went with my parents to Iowa, and South Dakota, while he trained. And I remember being downtown in Rapid City the night the new Colonel for the Air Base tried to land on the main street, with all its red and green Christmas lights. The Colonel's pilot became the former pilot for the Colonel, the next day. Christmas party the same Christmas at the Air Force Base - Ellsworth AFB, riding in the big rattling bus, or the towed second section (called the Cattle Car) behind it, that took dependents from the City out to the base. I still can tell a B-17 in the air or out.
REMEMBRANCE
I also remember that we were due to fly to California the 13th, and talking with air lines about the air shut down (how strange to see and hear no airplanes in the sky for two or three days). We got a flight on the 15th,crammed with people trying to get home, and someone saying to me "You're going on a vacation, now?" I tried to explain that our 50th anniversary was the 22nd and "No terrorists are going to stop us from this family reunion and this occasion."
I remember the Columbine disaster, and the Challenger, and VJ day and VE day, and Pearl Harbor - I was 11 years old then - I remember Ration stamps, and Savings stamps and bonds and scrap drives. I collected milk pod silk to go into life vests and kept scrap books of Pacific sea maps, and read books like "We were Expendable" and "The Raft". I went with my parents to Iowa, and South Dakota, while he trained. And I remember being downtown in Rapid City the night the new Colonel for the Air Base tried to land on the main street, with all its red and green Christmas lights. The Colonel's pilot became the former pilot for the Colonel, the next day. Christmas party the same Christmas at the Air Force Base - Ellsworth AFB, riding in the big rattling bus, or the towed second section (called the Cattle Car) behind it, that took dependents from the City out to the base. I still can tell a B-17 in the air or out.
Joan C