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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 07 > A date in infamy, 67 years later

A date in infamy, 67 years later

On that Sunday in 1941, when Japan’s surprise attack vaulted the nation into war, a Tumalo man braved the chaos for days to get word to his wife: He was alive.

By Lauren Dake / The Bulletin
December 7, 2008

TUMALO —

It was nearly a week after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor before newlywed Harvey Waldron Jr., now 88, could get word to his wife that he was alive.

“You can imagine the tension,” Waldron said. “She’s getting radio reports that 3,000....

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