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moc

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Sun Sep-23-07 07:22 PM
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7. My grandfather commanded a ship at Pearl Harbor.

Fortunately, he was a few miles outside the harbor during the attack. However, my grandmother, my father and my uncles didn't know he was okay for several weeks.

My father was 9yo and living in Honolulu at the time of the attack. My uncle was serving mass as an alter boy during the attack, and the candles rocked back and forth with the bombing.

About 2 months after the attack, a kamakaze plane dropped a bomb in a school yard about 2 blocks from my father's house. No one was hurt, but he was scared to death. Several months later, Navy families were evacuated to California with great fanfare. Dad thought it was quite the lark.

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