“I was riding around with Son McMillan and a boy named Joe Ross from Minter City on Sunday afternoon, December 7, 1941, when I first heard about Pearl Harbor being bombed. We had been hearing so much war news and rumblings of war that somehow it did not make that big of an impression on me as to the horror of it and that by the next day we could be in two wars, one in Europe and one in the Pacific.

“Ramon Harris, Mrs. Barron and I left the Farm Security office and rode around so we could listen to President Roosevelt on the radio declaring war. It is hard to express the feelings you had, and there was no way that we could fully comprehend what was to come.”