CHANNILLO
Fred was twenty-three years of age in 1942. He had tried to enlist in the Army the year before but was rejected because he suffered from a stomach ulcer. Fred studied to be a welder and, before Pearl Harbor was attacked, worked in shipyards in California building the Navy’s flotilla. He was a patriotic American, a native-born Californian. He lived in the same house in Oakland until he went to Los Angeles to attend college. As soon as he turned twenty-one,">
Chapter Nineteen: Summer of '42 (1)
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Chapter Nineteen
The Summer of ’42
“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”
—Adolf Hitler
Fred and Ida
Fred was twenty-three years of age in 1942. He had tried to enlist in the Army the year before but was rejected because he suffered from a stomach ulcer. Fred studied to be a welder and, before Pearl Harbor was attacked, worked in shipyards in California building the Navy’s flotilla. He was a patriotic American, a native-born Californian. He lived in the same house in Oakland until he went to Los Angeles to attend college. As soon as he turned twenty-one,...
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