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I do not remember much about the day

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before Pearl Harbor, but I do remember

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that morning very vividly. I

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woke up and heard bombing noises

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and I ran into my father's room and

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told him, you know, there's a lot of

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bombing noises. Dad, I think they're

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there. Something's going on at Fort

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Camp. Maybe they're practicing, but

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they don't practice on Sundays. And my

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dad looked up and they'd been at party

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and probably had just gotten home a few

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hours before and said, don't worry

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about it and go back to bed. I need to

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get some sleep. So I go back to my

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room and of course I'm not going back

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to sleep. I'm a little kid and I look

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out my bedroom window on the alley side

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of the house and I could see the

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plane with a big zero coming down the

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alley and I could see the pilot's face,

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ran back to my father's room and told

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him what was going on. And he came

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running over to where my window was and

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looked up the alley and could see

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another plane coming down. So he

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gets my mom up and gets us downstairs

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and tells us to sit on the couch and

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don't move and he would be back, but

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he had to go check on his men.

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So he took off and it seemed like an

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eternity before he got back.

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When he came back, he told us that we

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were being attacked by Japan and he

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had made provisions for us to get off

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the base and up into the hills outside

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the base for safety.