"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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"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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"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."

Duty,

"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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"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."

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"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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