August 7,1941
Pearl Harbor was still 4 months in the future.
My mother, father, three brothers and I were returning from our annual two weeks vacation on Onaway Island in Sunset lake in the Chain of Lakes near Waupaca, Wisconsin, heading home to Nashville, Tennessee. Dad's birthday was July 31 and mother had arranged for all of us to spend a night overlooking Lake Michigan and Grant Park at the historic Stevens Hotel on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.
My two younger brothers, Larry and Carl, were eleven and nine years old. Brother Daniel was nineteen and a second year student at the University of Illinois. I was in my senior year in high school.
We had gone to sleep fairly early and at about two o'clock in the morning, Dad awakened Daniel and me and said "I want you to come and look out the window and listen!" As soon as we came close to the window we could hear a quiet "brump, brump, brump bump bump" sound of a drum beat and then saw down below on Michigan Avenue soldiers marching. I remember him saying :"We will soon be in another war".Shortl
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