Saturday, December 7, 2013

Pearl

About 1974 my parents went to Hawaii, including touring the Arizona Memorial.  My gifts from parents returning from an exotic vacation were awesome.  

I was given a reproduced copy of the Honolulu paper's extra edition that said "WAR!" on it.  It got folded and spindled into a small square, but somewhere I have that thing; it's yellowing and wrapped in cellophane.



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At that time, being 8 years old, I also was a member of a scale model club.  It was like a record club except that when you forgot to send your "No Thanks" card back, you got a plastic model each month.  I had built an Apollo Module, Snoopy on his doghouse, cars, boats, motorcycles.  So my parents' second Hawaii gift for me was a large model of the USS Arizona from Revell.  I wish I had that now.  It would be fun to build.  I actually found a picture of the Revell model, but since I was 8, mine didn't look like this.


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The third gift they brought me was the most treasured.  I still have this.  My son was even allowed to use it in school for a book report for History class even though it's a very short book.  It's that well written and detailed.

 

It's "Pearl Harbor Story December 7, 1941" by William T. Rice.  Published in 1971 this was a souvenir book from the gift store at the Arizona Memorial.  I will always treasure this.


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I have no point this week.  It's just that because of these 3 gifts, I have always made sure I remember Pearl Harbor every year.  So, this is year, I'm remembering by sharing a childhood memory.  Hope you like it and will follow me https://twitter.com/awj9009


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