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"I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years."
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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."
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"Blessed is the womb that born you."
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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."
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"Children are angels."
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"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."
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"Wrapped in a mother's love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child."
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"A new baby is a bundle of hope, a smiling imagination, and a dancing dreams."
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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"
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"A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer."
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"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."
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"We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges."
War
"The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something."
Fear
"I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war."
War
"I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun."
Nothing
"Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships."
War
"I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years."
Family
"They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact."
Want
"We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers."
Force
"It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured."
People
"Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers."
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