Good morning.
Whitewater’s week ends with cloudy skies, but a relatively mild forty-one degree day.
It’s the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and in the Washington Post there’s a moving story entitled, “A reporter remembers ‘the vision of death’ at Pearl Harbor.”
It’s a story about ninety-seven-year-old Betty McIntosh’s “account of the attack on Pearl Harbor [that] went unpublished until today. Now 97, she speaks to The Fold’s Brook Silva-Braga about what she remembers from that infamous day and her later work as a wartime spy.” The paper has a link to her account, itself entitled, “Honolulu after Pearl Harbor: A report published for the first time, 71 years later.”
A video interview accompanies Betty’s story:
1943 – USS-Wisconsin [was] Christened
On this date the USS-Wisconsin was christened by Wisconsin’s first lady Madge Goodland. The ship was re-christened by Mrs. Goodland in March, 1951 during the Korean War. The USS-Wisconsin was inactive for many years but was recommissioned in 1989. [Source: First Ladies of Wisconsin, the Governor’s Wives by Nancy G. Williams, p.181]
Google-a-Day asks about the Olympics: “Where were the games held when a female was awarded, for the very first time, a perfect score in an Olympic gymnastic event?”