It Happened on Our Soil
America under attack
3 min readSep 11, 2021
When I was a kid watching old war movies with my dad, I wondered what it must have been like to live in Hawaii during the surprise Pearl Harbor attacks just before eight on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. Nobody saw it coming, but I figured that kind of attack would never happen again on American soil — and then it did on 9/11.
