Ever curious how our veterans heard the news? If you have any stories on that, relate them, here. My Dad was just turned 19. He and his gang heard it come over the radio at Pop's Drug Store and Soda Fountain, in Cicero, IL. He said nobody there knew what Pearl Harbor was. I suppose that's how it was in a lot of the cases. My grandmother at the time was working at the Western Electric plant where they were making communications equipment for the War effort, so it's not like the general population didn't know something, somewhere, was going to break.