Veteran's History Project - Jack R. Knicely

Jack R. Knicely

Lieutenant Colonel

U.S. Air Force /

U.S. Air Force Reserve

1942-1945 /

1961-1981

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in The Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Sidney, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project.

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in December in Lincoln. Jack Knicely was a student at the University there.

An announcement had come out over the radio that Pearl Harbor had been attacked. Everything changed.

To say that the American people were "highly agitated" would...