Material success as it is measured by the world's standards, does not interest me. I desire only enough to fill my needs, which are surprisingly few. I am not ambitious: I have no desire for recognition either in business or any other earthly endeavor; immortality does not interest; I do not wish to be remembered by posterity either as a…
Category Archives Letters Home—Bradley Beahan in WWII
Brief telegram that airmen were permitted to send home after the Pearl Harbor attack. It took seven days to reach his family. Bradley's first letter home to his parents in Towanda, PA, after the Sept. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. 12 December 1941 Dear Mom & Pop I am OK, and doing fine. There is little to…
Lakeland Ledger theater writer Brad Beahan experienced the attack on Pearl Harbor as a 21-year-old private in the Army Air Corps stationed at Hickam Field, adjacent to Pearl. The story is a first-hand account of Beahan’s experiences and observations the day Pearl Harbor was attacked. By Brad Beahan Sept. 7, 1991 The dawn breaks cool and soft on a December…