Bob and I were at the Polo Grounds that day. I think my father was the public address announcer. He announced that all service men, (though it may have been only Officers), report to their military stations immediately. But he didn’t announce that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor, ostensibly because it might cause a stampede or something. The game went on. Adults mumbled among themselves as to what it was all about.
On the way home in our parents car, a 1941 Pontiac, my father had the radio on. At 5:30, Bob and I wanted to listen to “The Shadow“, which we always listened to on the way home from the Giant’s games. But we were shhhushed because they were listening to the war news. Little by little we began to catch on that something really big had happened. It had to be big if the news beat out “The Shadow“.
Bob, what do you remember?
My best,
Kevin
