The Dec. 7, 1941, Bears-Cardinals Football Game-- Part 2

Wallace Rosenbaum now lives in Evanston, remembers the game and season well ( a real Bears fan), "If the Bears won, they would play in the (division) championship game against the Packers. It was a very close game."

The Bears won it all that year, beating the Cardinals, the Packers to win the Western Division and then destroying the New York Giants 37-9 in the NFL Title Game.

But fans at Comiskey were not told of the Japanese attack during the game.

He and his friends first learned about it as they left and came across newsboys hawking extras outside the gates.

The new hit home because his father was in the military, but none of them knew where Pearl Harbor or Hawaii was.

With his parents permission, he enlisted in the Army at age 17 and served in the Pacific Theater.

One Little Slice of History. --Cooter