When Pearl Harbor was attacked Dec. 7, 2021, this Gainesville man was there - Gainesville Times

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When Pearl Harbor was attacked Dec. 7, 2021, this Gainesville man was there

Mack Abbott, left, stands with his father, Mathew, and mother, Alice, in 1943, shortly after Abbott returned from Guadalcanal.

0531abbott2 — Mack Abbott, left, stands with his father, Mathew, and mother, Alice, in 1943, shortly after Abbott returned from Guadalcanal.

Gainesville’s late Mack Abbott witnessed a history-changing event as it flashed by the window of his Marine Corps barracks on Dec. 7, 1941, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.