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CHICAGO -- Charles Collins thought he'd do a little Christmas shopping on Dec. 7, 1941. It was a Sunday, and he'd already filed the next installment of "A Line O' Type Or Two," a venerable Chicago Tribune column peppered with readers' verses and quips.
Tuesday is the 80th anniversary of the day that those who were alive when it happened could never forget.
For months, war clouds had hung over the U.S., but the attack still took Americans by surprise.
The news about the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, spread throughout Chicago jerkily, like runaway frames of movie film.