Remembering Pearl Harbor Day
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This apparently was just another Sabbath morning, no different from any other; some observed, as do the faithful and others did not.
Then as the day progressed, it was as if the cosmic transmission of thought was superseding the technology of man. People for strange reasons began to be aware of some ominous, impending portent.
On that chill, bleak December day in the Middle West, a rancher engrossed in his reading was irresistibly moved to switch on his small battery-powered radio and received the news that would alter the lives of men and the boundaries of nations. The attacking planes that morning cast a shadow in the rising sun that was at a later date reflected in the blast that destroyed the city of Hiroshima.
KEN WILLIAMS
Hacienda Heights
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