Seventy-five years ago Wednesday, the day then President Franklin D. Roosevelt said would go down in infamy, when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese, Polly Millhouser of Mountain Home was a 21 year old girl living in Honolulu with her sister. She remembers that morning being at church when she learned of the attack.
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She says they didn’t realize at first what had happened.
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After Pearl Harbor, Millhouser went to work at the naval base where she met her future husband, Charles, a Marine stationed at Pearl Harbor during the attack. She says he never talked about what happened on the day we now call Pearl Harbor Day.
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Millhouser’s husband died more than 20 years ago. Today she resides on her own in Mountain Home where she is a longtime volunteer and member of the Baxter County Friends of the Library.
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