At Schreiner Institute in Kerrville, Texas, a Sunday cadet routine of reveille, meals, compulsory church call, and brief free time was abruptly transformed when news arrived in town that Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor and all cadets were ordered back to campus immediately. Upon returning, the four hundred thirty cadets were called to formation, told to collect their issued rifles, bayonets, and military belts, and that evening trucks from Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio arrived to take the school's military equipment, including rifles, bayonets, two machine guns, and one thirty-seven-millimeter cannon, for shipment to the West Coast. The episode impressed on the cadets how unprepared the country was for war as Germany had already overrun most of Europe and Japan was challenging the United States in the Pacific. That night taps was delayed so they could hear radio news, and the next morning they listened to President Roosevelt's speech to Congress before classes resumed. On Tuesday, classes ended at noon and the student body marched with the Institute band to the Kerr County Courthouse Square, where between seven and ten thousand people gathered to hear more about Pearl Harbor, the actions of Congress, patriotic speeches urging eligible men to enlist, the National Anthem, and a prayer for the country. The day had an immediate effect on Schreiner Institute and remained a lasting memory of the sacrifices that would be required from the cadets and the nation.