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Show HERE WERE you Sunday, Dec. 7— that day described by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as “a date which will live in infamy... [when] the United States of ‘Americawas suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan”? That chilly gray afternoon 25 years ago I was a sophomore at Cornell University. I was sitting in my room doing dreary physics problemswhile listening to the New York Philharmonic’s regular Sunday concert. Then the music was interrupted by the announcement. Flabbergasted, I continued for awhile. But later in the day I sent my father a post card asking: “We're in the soup now, Pop, what should T do?” Based on this remembrance of my own,I recently asked many persons—Japanese as. well-as Americans—“Where were you when Pearl Harbor was attacked, and what did you do?” Their collective answers are as human as anything could be, as I’m sure your own are. Nosuyuki Nakayma, Chief, North American Affairs Section, Japanese Foreign Ministry. “Early that morning, the news on the radio upset me at my studies at the Tokyo University Law School. I felt discouraged because, after so Jong at- the ‘negotiations, all- went ‘poof.’ I could only then act as patriotically as possible. In 1942 I passed up myfirst chance at the foreign service and went into the Imperial Navy instead.” Dran Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State. “I had been recalled to active duty in 1940 from the Army Re- Remember Pearl Harbor serves. I wasan infantry cap-_ the word+08 stunned 25. years |ego—Dee. a.1951—dhen the beJapaneseattacked Pearl.Harbor. wi dayof infamyleft indelible impressions on those wholived through it—the famousas well as ordinary citizens, both Japanese and American; here are their recollections By M. D. MORRIS 4 Family Weekly, December 4, 1966 ¥ tain on duty on the War Department’s General Staff.” (Captain Rusk was in the “war room” when the official word camein. As a junior officer in the very nerve center, his actions. and reactions were dictated by the moment-to-moment requirements of the persons surrounding him and the rapidly developing situation into which they were all immersed.) Wiitram Frirts RYAN, Congressman from New York. “I was studying in my dormitory room at Princeton when the news came over my radio. I went around telling others. We were all surprised. I was in the college Reserve Officers —=Training—Corps,-which-had-suddenty—become-= very serious thing. That night, I grimly went out with our commanding officer to inspect equipment and training stores.” «° Mrs. LUCILLE WILSON, American housewife. “T was a 19-year-old kid straight off the farm. T was on my first-job in Louisville, Ky., as a . Sunday was-my day off, and being lonesome, I went around tothe neighborhood delicatessen. The old German couple who ran it -were so friendly. A group had gathered around the-radio-in-the-store;-the-old-man-was-speechless, and ‘Mama’was out in front weeping as she : |