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Fleet, and the start of American involvement in World War II would soon follow. There were about 3,500 American soldiers and civilians killed in the attack.
‘We were just mad about it— mad at not only the Japanese, mad at our leadership,” he said. The Chew lost two men out of 110, he said.
Mr. Pond is in Pearl Harbor this week, attending a private observance on the wreckage of the U.S.S. Utah. He is president of the nonprofit Pearl Harbor History Associateslnc., with headquarters at his home in Sperryville.
Another Rappahannock resident whose life was inalterably changed by the Pearl Harbor attack is Pat Saltonstall, whose family lived in Hawaii, where her stepfather worked for a sugar company.
Ms. Saltonstall, then 15 years old, had just been sent away to school in San Francisco when the attack occurred. It would be weeks before she heard from her family— they were all safe—and four years before she could return to the island.
On Dec. 7 she and the four other “island girls” were returning from church services when one of the school’s day students leaned out a window and said with total insensitivity, “Hey, Pat, did you know your home has just been bombed?”
Fear of a Japanese attack on the West Coast—unfounded fears, it turned out—meant the boarders spent that night in the basement, blacked out. It was the start of a four-year Odyssey for Ms. Saltonstall and millions of other Americans.
Three weeks later Ms. Sal tons
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