Question from Hannah:
“Please tell me a personal story about World War II.”
Dear Hannah,
As a young couple, my husband and I were driving along in our car with our young daughter. In those days, we didn’t often use car seats or seat belts, so our daughter Anne was standing on the front seat between us. She was playing with the knob on the radio and happened to turn it to a radio broadcast telling all of us that Pearl Harbor had been bombed by the Japanese. They were attacking us in the United States! We couldn’t believe it. My husband, Bob, turned to me and said, “Betsy, we’ve seen our best days.” (Meaning, our happiest days were over and that things were going to be very different and difficult for us from then on.) Soon after that, he enlisted in the Navy to fight in the war.
Thank you for your question!
Betsy
