古崇賢的学报

My mom expressed excited interest about iPads and Kindles today, though she was dubious of the Kindle replacing books, as she doesn't trust the electronic thing to keep what it loads for future reference/re-reading. I'm really surprise she was so interested in the iPad. I may get her one, as it's the first technological thing she's been excited about.

Today is my mother's birthday.

I don't remember how old i was, but i remember that she explained to me that she was born on the 7th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, to help me remember.

That attack resulted in my then 13-year old maternal grandfather altering his birth certificate to show he was 16, so he could enilist in the US Navy, and defend that which wes right. Today, his left arm is all but useless from that service. I remember how happy he was when the VA finally gave him an arm brace with veclro insead of with buckles.

Grandma used to tell me about convincing her schoolmates to give their lunch money for war bonds. Shopping with her - at the grocery store, the drugstore, May Company, wherever - decades later, those people remembered her, and thanked her for that.

How things change.