For my birthday I went to Concord to visit Howard, who was teaching at Mt. Diablo High School, where my mother had created that high school [ ] from there, and now he's teaching. He had graduated from San Francisco State Teacher's College. At this point he may have been taking some graduate classes at Mills. I was quite close to Howard, so I had gone to his house for my birthday - 21st birthday. We were at the service station, putting gas in my car, when the announcement came. The guy from the service station said, "They just bombed Pearl Harbor. " That's the way I found out about it.