Wow.. Seventy years. (It's so strange to have something that happened that long ago to be in the living memories of my aunts and uncles.) I'm sure neither the broadcaster nor any of his audience had an idea of what the next several years would bring.
I'm imagining my fourteen-year-old grandparents listening to it on the family radio, while the adults and older siblings talked about who was likely to join up.
My other grandfather was already in Singapore by then, and wouldn't be home for nearly two years.
I feel really chagrined that I forgot the start of WW2 in Europe (I'm one of those that counts the start of the war at the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on July 7, 1937). Still, thanks for the reminder. Makes me wonder what my 12-year-old father would have thought, even if the U.S. wouldn't enter the war until December of 1941.
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Date: 2009-09-01 05:28 pm (UTC)My other grandfather was already in Singapore by then, and wouldn't be home for nearly two years.
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