My father was 8 and now at 89 still has a remarkable memory. He and my grandfather had been visiting a couple of people after church and came home and heard it on the radio. Dad had two first cousins who were already in the Navy and a third cousin enlisted in the Navy when he finished school in the spring. He was killed. Dad always says that one newscaster in particular had him thinking there were Japs hiding under his bed. One of Dad's older brothers went into the Army later in 1942 and survived the war. My grandfather was a railroad worker and worked a lot of 7 day weeks to keep things rolling. They had a phone at home and people in town would come and get phone calls from their sons before they went overseas.
