By George Morris
Seventy-eight years ago today, Lydia “Diane” Grant woke to the sound of a machine gun bullet smashing the wall above her bed. But disturbed sleep was the most minor casualty that day.
The Japanese were attacking Pearl Harbor.
The long-time Baton Rouge resident, then the 14-year-old stepdaughter of a naval officer, witnessed the event that thrust the United States into World War II. It took a few moments to realize what was going on. Aircraft skimmed the tops of the palm trees of her Navy Yard home.
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George Morris’s framing of Diane Grant waking to a bullet in the wall is the kind of civilian detail that usually gets flattened into ‘Pearl Harbor’ as a date only. The Advocate link helps, but first-person texture is what sticks for readers who never met a Navy Yard family. We collect similar short military-history explainers (people + context, not rank lists) at warcrumbs.com.
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