Going Back to Pearl Harbor-- So That's Why You Don't Play Golf

I didn't write down the source, but I think it was from Springfield, Illinois.

Some survivors' remeniscences of December 7, 1941.

GUY PIPER was going to his first golf lesson that day and didn't make it. To this day, he has never learned to play the game.

SAM BRAYFIELD saw the Arizona split in two and then went to the powder room of the USS New Orleans. The chaplain told him there wouldn't be a service that day, but "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."

The PEARL HARBOR SURVIVORS ASSOCIATION began in 1958.

DAVID THOMAS MONTGOMERY 1917-2008 of Petersburg, Illinois, was at Pearl harbor and was a radioman with the PB4 Squadron at Ford Island during the attack. He sent the first message that told the nation of the attack, "Air Raid. Pearl Harbor. This is no drill." He later served throughout the world during the war. In 1963, he founded the Illinois Chapter of the PHSA. He died Jan. 15, 2008.

A Day That Will Live in Infamy. --Cooter