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tall got word her parents and brother were safe. Her parents had attended an overnight party at Hickman Field, leaving her 12-year-old brother Nat at home with their servants. He saw one of the Japanese planes shot down, and it went into the Pacific Ocean right in front of their house.
For the next four years the only contact she had with her family was through a series of censored letters and some rare, and monitored telephone calls.
After the atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese mainland, Ms. Saltonstall dropped out of Smith College (where she was a classmate of Barbara Bush) and hitched a ride on a troop ship back home.
The first thing she did upon returning home was to go for a swim in the family pool. Coming back to the surface she discovered a whitehaired man in the pool. It was Admiral Chester Nimitz.
Following the surrender of the enemy, most of the Pacific force went through Hawaii on their way home. Among her memories is serving as a host for a party held to boost the spirits of the prisoners from Bataan.
“There’s no question in my mind that Americans have a right to remember Pearl Harbor,” said Ms. Saltonstall. “It was a shocking, shocking thing.”
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