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Mom was a real “shutterbug,” and I’m glad she was; otherwise I wouldn’t have some of the really great pictures of so many places here in Kern County and elsewhere during the 30s and 40s. But one picture mom took in a Honolulu bar while she was in Hawaii is of some of her friends. There are three young sailors, and two young women shown hoisting their glasses toward mom as she was taking their picture. They are smiling and laughing, just really happy young people and the picture makes me believe mom and those other young people had found heaven on earth. Full of youth and the joy of life in a beautiful land; and no doubt all had their hopes and dreams that life would continue to be full of joy and promise. A few days after mom took the picture the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. In such a brief moment of time our lives can go from heaven on earth to being hell on earth. It may come from the death of a child or other loved one, it may come because of an...

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