When Your Earliest Memory is Pearl Harbor
The Memoir My Dad Wouldn’t Write is a Radically honest conversation between a daughter and her dad. My dad has had an incredible life as a poet, activist, professor, and cultural worker. He wouldn’t write a memoir, so this series of conversations is partly that.
The words “Pearl Harbor” were what my Dad heard and remembered as a four year old. That surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese represents his earliest memory. He’d just turned 4 a week prior. In this episode there is an interesting resonance between the attack spearheaded by the Japanese and an alluring Japanese bride whom my father watched through his backyard fence.
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