{"id":596,"date":"2016-12-07T20:08:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewhiteknight.org\/?p=596"},"modified":"2016-12-07T20:56:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:56:17","slug":"remembering-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiteknight.org\/index.php\/2016\/12\/07\/remembering-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering 12\/07\/1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, &#8220;The day of Infamy&#8221;, I remember so clearly. I was 10 years old and couldn&#8217;t believe how all the men I knew all rushed in the excitement to help and to &#8220;Join up&#8221; after hearing President Roosevelt&#8217;s speech. At that time, there was no TV, so you listened under the radio and imagined what had happened in Hawaii. My uncles all wanted to join but my father wasn&#8217;t allowed to, cause he was the oldest son, and could only join rhe war effort by working in the Navy shipyards in <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Brooklyn. Uncle Joey joined the Navy and was a hero, Uncle Al the army and was a Chief cook, Uncle Mickey was &#8220;4f&#8221;, and Uncle Raffie too young. My two first cousins on my mother&#8217;s side joined as well. One was killed in France, and wounded in Anzio beachhead. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">As the war progressed, my brother Al would gather all us kids under a lamppost and tell us what happened each day. He was a great story teller and made sound affects as the planed dived at each other and guns rattling and bombs blowing up. All of us listened quietly in wonder&#8230; I can hear him now!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, &#8220;The day of Infamy&#8221;, I remember so clearly. I was 10 years old and couldn&#8217;t believe how all the men I knew all rushed in the excitement to help and to &#8220;Join up&#8221; after hearing President Roosevelt&#8217;s speech. At that time, there was no TV, so you listened under the radio and imagined what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewhiteknight.org\/index.php\/2016\/12\/07\/remembering-the-attack-on-pearl-harbor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remembering 12\/07\/1941, and the attack on Pearl Harbor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiteknight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiteknight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiteknight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiteknight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiteknight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiteknight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiteknight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiteknight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiteknight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiteknight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}