A Day To Remember

Sixty-five years have passed since December 7, 1941. The memory of the events of that day is still vivid. We had returned to our farm after services at Zion Congregational Church in Manvel, North Dakota at about 2 o’clock in the afternoon. I was doing something in the barn when my father called me to come to the house where I found everyone clustered around our radio listening to the reports of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I knew our lives had changed and would never be the same. I remember thinking about the coming Christmas and wondering if we would celebrate as usual. I remember wondering about my cousin Jack who had gone to Canada to join the Canadian army and about my close friend Warren, our hired-man, who enlisted in the Navy a few months earlier and was stationed at Pearl Harbor. Christmas came but was different, Eventually V-E and V-J Day came. Jack came home and so did Warren. For me December 7 remains a day to remember.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to each of you from all of us at the Crockett Museum and Historical Society