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For years I have heard conspiracy theorists proclaim that President Roosevelt and the the U.S. military knew that the Japanese would attack the U.S. and when but this is something I have a problem with as told by my mother who remembered this! Historical accuracy is in short supply today due to the fact that there are a number of politically incorrect heathens doing the rewriting of history!!!
It was December 6 1941 when my mother drove my father across the Golden Gate bridge to Marin county to deploy from there to Angel Island where 100,000 U.S. army personnel were being dispatched to the Philippines where Mac Arthur was awaiting the arrival of this vastly expanded army in case of war!! The Operative words "IN CASE OF WAR"!!!
Now my father Corporal Nick Fridas and his best friend Sergeant Harold Lang were among the 100,000 American soldiers on board the ships that were taking them to the Philippines, anxious and nervous wives waved goodbye to their husbands, brothers, fathers, uncles and boyfriends as the ships could be seen going out to sea the many people who came to see their loved ones off waited like my mother who stood and watched as many nervous army wives do in anticipation of the inevitable!
The day was cool and the weather was calm with good visibility, after the ships disappeared out of sight the thousands of cars started to go in different directions some over the bridge and others northbound on the small road leading north from the loading area!
The day turned into night and by noon the next day the nightmare that was about to unfold was telling Americans we are now in a state of war!!! President Roosevelt would address the nation to inform them our nation had been attacked!!
To this day conspiracy theorists continue to claim that the Roosevelt administration knew this would happen, to wit I reply, maybe or maybe not, one thing is for sure, he did not know it was going to be on December 7 because the fact is why send 100,000 men and a vast armada of ships to sea only to have them turn around the very next day and return to California!!!
My mother and her best friend Yvonne who was Harold Lang's wife my fathers life long best friend were over joyed at the thought that their men were returning to the states especially after the news of Pearl Harbor!
My father was then sent to Mt Tamalpias to a new radar station watching for air and sea craft on the west coast, later he was transferred to Illinois, and then there was more I hope to write later!!! ******************************************************************************
The day was cool and the weather was calm with good visibility, after the ships disappeared out of sight the thousands of cars started to go in different directions some over the bridge and others northbound on the small road leading north from the loading area!
The day turned into night and by noon the next day the nightmare that was about to unfold was telling Americans we are now in a state of war!!! President Roosevelt would address the nation to inform them our nation had been attacked!!
To this day conspiracy theorists continue to claim that the Roosevelt administration knew this would happen, to wit I reply, maybe or maybe not, one thing is for sure, he did not know it was going to be on December 7 because the fact is why send 100,000 men and a vast armada of ships to sea only to have them turn around the very next day and return to California!!!
My mother and her best friend Yvonne who was Harold Lang's wife my fathers life long best friend were over joyed at the thought that their men were returning to the states especially after the news of Pearl Harbor!
My father was then sent to Mt Tamalpias to a new radar station watching for air and sea craft on the west coast, later he was transferred to Illinois, and then there was more I hope to write later!!! ******************************************************************************
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