“I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.”
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
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