From Dad's "Life Memories"...

"In the afternoon on Sunday December 7, 1941 we had
a baseball game going on in our front yard with the
neighborhood gang. Daddy came to the front door and
called Charles, Chandler and me to come inside and
told everyone else that they needed to go home to be
with their families. We sat around the radio and
listened as president Roosevelt declared America was
at war. I was 9 years old and my brothers would soon
graduate from high school. Life changed for everyone
that day."

L-R: Chandler, Jim (Dad), Mattye (Mema), Spurgeon (Grandaddy) and Charles