https://sandrawagnerwright.com/thanksgiving-holiday-shopping-two-american-traditions/ Writer - Historian - Traveller Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:26:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://sandrawagnerwright.com/thanksgiving-holiday-shopping-two-american-traditions/#comment-161 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:26:24 +0000 https://sandrawagnerwright.com/?p=356#comment-161 I was thinking about Congress a lot this week because of research. I wonder what their mind set was like in Dec. of 41. They say (among the Chaplin Corps at least) that there are no atheists in fox holes. I wonder if after hearing the news of Hawaii’s waterfronts destroyed and the loss of life that perhaps it was easy to pass a bill about Thanksgiving for Congress. I think of my mom. They were going to the beach with friends that morning. After they picked up the last person, they drove out about a block when a bomb leveled that house. At least they got away with their lives. My uncle was trapped three days in the wreckage at Pearl. He was so afraid that they wouldn’t find him in the next conflict that he tattooed his social security number on his leg. War does strange things to people.

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