On Dec. 7th, 1941, the Japanese Empire showed they didn't like the United States, and directed Japan's military to bomb and destroy the United States, starting with hitting the US war ships that were setting ducks in Hawaii. While President FDR made his speech to Congress, the United States was given permission to retaliate against the Japanese, and in so doing, one of the leaders of the Japanese said something like "I am afraid that we have woke up a Sleeping Giant" and the US did things that made us all nervous. People that were living in America but with Japanese blood or DNA were rounded up and placed in prison like Compounds, and only history may tell us of the necessity of doing that. Eventually, we won the war against Hirohito as well as Hitler in Germany, but all of that is another story. To the Nephi Jones Family, Dec. 7th brings another Bomb Shell, and indications are he was one of the good guys who would be called to serve a 30 month mission to China, then to the Philippine's because of riots in downtown Kowloon Tong, then when he got home to rest, he was hit with a real live bomb with no time to sit under the cherry tree with a stick rolling in his mouth He was drafted into the Army to fight another battle in a place referred to as Viet Nam. Like his father before him, Hal Harris Jones became a skilled Medic who not only saved many life's of his own countrymen, but ended up having to kill enemy's who were the from South Viet Nam. He picked his buddies machine gun and killed them all. The enemy had previously fought the French and France should have been contacted , but State Department apparently failed, at least that is what I was told when I spent some time in Nam. While thousands of we the good guys were running around, the enemy was living in deep tunnels, and set up to be like gophers, coming up through tunnels to kill us. Hal could have been carrying 3 Purple Hearts, but refused them and only wanted to help his buddies as a medic, but several tines this quite young Nephite was hit while he was pulling his Medic partner, who was killed. Hal remains with PTSD or Shell Shock, so when we eat out, we have to put him in a corner so nobody touches him, and he still has the thoughts of killing others t save his buddies. To this day, he still wakes up to the bad things such as killing the enemy with his surgical scalpel, or picking up a machine gun to kill the enemy coming to kill him. Well, he made it back home, but went to work at Greenwoods retreading tires, then to college and received his papers a became a Medic and many years at the Tooele Army Depot as well as doing part time work for folks, many of which had those dam dogs that would jump on him while he was trying to find a vein on the arm. Hal now carries a concealed weapon so I will say no more, other than he is a dam good man and wears wrist metals to remind him of the three men that were killed next to him. He just returned from the Rodeo Finals in Vegas and decided not to ride the Bull named "VC" .
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