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Remembering Pearl Harbor
December 7, 2006
As a young reporter some 30 years ago, I was assigned to write a story on Pearl Harbor Day as the nation paused to remember that dreadful attack on that fateful morning of Dec. 7, 1941. As part of the story, I interviewed the head of local chapter of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.
I thought it would be a routine story but it was far from that when he told me of the horrors of that awful day and for more than an hour I sat mesmerized as he told me of his friends and shipmates who were killed. He described in minute detail the attack and its aftermath, which ultimately led us into World War II.
As he described the events, he seemed to relive them noting that they would “forever be etched in my mind.” He told me of the special bond that existed between all of the survivors.
Today, members of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, many of them in their 80s and 90s, meet for their last time in Hawaii. Click here to read this story.
Posted by Jack Keough on December 7, 2006 | Comments (0)