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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
December 7, 1941. A day that will live in infamy.
Far more than most people. Jesse Pond has reason to remember the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He was a crewman on the Chew, a Navy destroyer anchored next to Battleship Row that fateful morning. He remembers the hail of machine gun Fire from strafing planes, he remembers the stench of cordite and burning oil, the deafening boom of ex-, plosions, the gut-tightening fear that he would be one of the dead when the battle ended.
Because he remembers. Pond gives a big part of his life to the Pearl Harbor Survivors' Association, a fraternal and social organization made up of men and women from all branches or the service who lived through those two hours 35 years ago.
At his home in Sperryville, Pond, who is treasurer of the nationwide association, keeps records of the 8,000 current and 2,000 past members. The filing cabinets of his basement office hold material enough for * dozes hooks
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