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Editor, News-Register:
Where was I on Pearl Harbor Day, Dec. 7, 1941? I was playing at my rural home in Carroll County, blissfully unaware that all of our lives were soon to change very much. Mom and Pop and my brother and I heard the news, but it didn't sink in very much until the next day at school.
We attended a one-room schoolhouse known as Carroll County No. 5. Electricity had come to our area about a year earlier through the REA. I was a nearly-8-year-old third-grader -- one of three in my class.
The whole school was taken by our teacher (about 30 of us) to the house across the street where the family had a radio and had invited us to come over.
There, we listened in silence to President Roosevelt's declaration of war. We knew it was a very solemn moment, even though we didn't much understand what was going on.
We were soon to find out.
Doris Starr Payne
Toronto