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My dad's family took delivery of their new tractor Saturday, and spent the day getting it set up. Sunday was beautiful weather so my dad, grandfather, and two brothers were eager to start learning how to work the new toy... Until, at 10:00 am pacific time my grandmother came running out of the house with the news "The Japanese are bombing Pearl Harbor!".
My grandfather, a WW1 veteran (wounded by gas at Verdun) served as an officer in the "Oregon Guard", the last line of defense of people too old, or too young to be active military. My grandmother served as a airplane spotter in the Guard. My dad served in the Guard during high school (and may have seen a causality from a Japanese balloon bomb), enlisted in the Navy after graduating high school but was still in training when Japan surrendered.