Remembering Pearl Harbor

This was a very big day in my family because my mother had lost her brother, to whom she was very close, at Pearl. I can remember being scared during blackouts as a kid but that's about as far as my memory of the early war goes.

I can remember how eager I was to see the film Pearl Harbor, even going to its first showing at 10 a.m. -- and how thoroughly disappointed I was by its failure.