We've hit the 70th anniversary of the US entry into World War 2. The fellow in the red shirt is Col. Hays. He was there the Sunday morning the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. His description of working at the hospital was very similar to the scene from the recent movie. Oddly enough he told me by the next day the chaos was under control, patients moved to other hospitals and hospital ships. That was his only combat, shortly after he was transferred to the states. He was in the army for several decades.
The surprised looking fellow in purple shirt is my dad. He was at a rodeo that afternoon when someone drove in having heard about it on their car radio, an announcement was made over the PA that Pearl Harbor had been bombed.