Today is December 7th, the 76th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which led to the United States entering World War II. This attack killed 2,403 people, on a level with the terrorist attacks on September 11th, and anyone alive at the time remembers it vividly. My father Nelson served during that war as a dentist on Okinawa, to his great surprise. He and his friend and fellow dentist Ed were listening to the Northwestern (my father's alma mater) football game when the doorbell rang and he got his draft notice. This was at a time when he was in his mid-thirties. His friend Ed thought that was real funny, and went home to find he got a draft notice, too. Ed was sent to be a dentist in Paris, while as I said before, my father served on the typhoon plagued island of Okinawa. That Hoyt luck, by the way, continues to this day.
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