The Attack

Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] For as long as we could remember, Ike Godsey's general merchandise store had been the social center of our community. Friendships were forged over loaves of bread. The place was a clearing-house for news, rumor, and often as not, gossip. Adventure in those days was having a nickel to spend and time to gaze into the candy counter for as long as we liked before making a selection. Little did we know then, how much that store and its occupants meant to us until one terrifying day in 1942.