“Hey, did you hear the radio? The Japs bombed Pearl Harbor!”
George Michel was several months shy of 18 when a friend told him the news at church one Sunday night—December 7, 1941. “We’re going to have a war on our hands!” Michel had heard about the war on the other side of the ocean in Europe and the Pacific, but it soon dawned on him that he and his buddies would have to register under the Selective Service Act as soon as they turned 18 to be drafted into the service of their country. “All of a sudden it came home to me: ‘I’m going to be involved.’" Read more