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Article: CELEBRATING FREEDOM; The FOURTH and FREEDOM; Sixty years ago, American skies were dark and quiet on the first Independence Day after Pearl Harbor
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- July 4, 2002
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The Patriot Ledger
It was the Fourth of July without fireworks. Sixty years later,
that's one of the things that Dick Nagel of Cohasset and other South
Shore senior citizens remember most about Independence Day 1942, the
first Fourth after Pearl Harbor.
Neighborhood parades were bigger than ever that hot, breezy
Saturday, seven months after Japan's sneak attack thrust America into
World War II. Patriotic songs filled the air at every gathering. The
Red Sox and Yankees played a doubleheader at Fenway Park.
But deadly fighting raged in the Pacific, Russia and North Africa,
and the threat of offshore enemy action seemed real, so state and
federal authorities ordered Quincy and every other ...