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Remembering Pearl Harbor
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the Japanese attack on Hawaii on December 7th 1941 sparked the defiant battlecry remember Pearl Harbor and even 75 years later the dwindling ranks of those who watched the attack happen remember it still our cover story is reported by Lee Cowen Hawaii's Pearl Harbor it was just a place before it became a memorial a tropically tranquil place that was darinda Nicholson's childhood home this was my favorite part of the neighborhood because darinda was just 6 years old that Sunday in 1941 born in Hawaii her family was civilian and lived near the dock for the famous PanAm Clippers the idea of War coming to this remote Pacific Outpost seemed to most here about as likely as a white Hawaiian Christmas but at 7:55 a.m. on December 7th a storm did indeed come they were coming right over the house and when you came outside and you looked up they were right there right overhead canopies pushed back and could see the Pilot's faces they were that close what did you think when you saw that oh I just leaned closer to my dad and hugged him a little closer six Japanese aircraft carriers had sailed to within 300 miles of the Hawaiian Islands loaded with more than 350 planes that were on a waho like a swarm of angry mosquitoes dinda's family fled to the relative safety of the island sugar cane Fields but Navy Seaman dick jrao now 95 had nowhere to go two 300 yard over there is where I was he had joined the Navy at age 19 and was part of the crew that manned the pby Catalina flying boats out of the Naval Air Station at Fort Island how close were the bombs falling to your within 100 yards he High tailed it to a nearby ditch for cover and when I first went in it I'm laying on the bottom of it and another fella come jumping in right on top of laying on top of me and he was saying Hil Mar as fast as he could see him and then I said well that takes care of that part I don't have to do that but then a Japanese pilot spotted him this fell says well you might as well turn over and watch this DB me I turn over I just looking up I'm looking up at a dive armor coming down straight at you oh yeah banked out over the Airfield and looked right down in the ditch and I could look him right in the eyee hanger 79 just one down from where dick was still Bears the scars the bullet holes and its bright blue window panes remain reminders of the serenity shattered on a quiet Sunday morning were you mad were you angry confused I don't really recall whether I was angry or not a lot of people asked me if I was scared and I'm sure I was if I wasn't something wrong with me scores of planes were bruised and battered by at the Army Aires hiam Airfield nearby the Japanese assault continued parked wing tip to wing tip nearly every American warbird was incinerated before ever Taking Flight but Japan's real Target was Battleship Row the Utah shown capsized and partially sunk within minutes the California was sinking and the Oklahoma had also capsized trapping hundreds in her Hull the whole side of Battleship Roll Clear down to the Arizona is covered with flames the people in the Water Swimming trying to get out it was a terrible terrible scene 95-year-old Delton Wally Walling was perched high in a patrol tower that day and saw it all unfold can you imagine how I'm feeling now when I'm watching my great Navy stuffed down my throat I'm devastated man and it got worse not far away the shaw a destroyer exploded with such ferocity it sent pieces flying a half mile away a moment captured in this iconic photograph that almost knocked us off in the tower but it was the Arizona that got the worst of it hit by armor-piercing bombs it too exploded killing 1,177 the single largest loss of life in American Naval History her Hull is still in the mud where she the Arizona Remains the final resting place for most of her crew including 23 sets of Brothers family dying shoulder-to-shoulder in a war that hadn't even been declared when we talk to people they will say oh my father or my grandfather wouldn't s us anything until he was 60 or 70 years old they were told to forget about it to just get on with their lives and forget it Craig nilson spent the last 5 years compiling one of the most recent accounts of Pearl Harbor published by Simon and Schuster a CBS company December 7th 1941 he says was arguably just as pivotal to our identity as the 4th of July 1776 it completely transformed the United States at that moment we were 14th military power in the World Behind uh Sweden so it served really as a rallying cry in a way it made us put on our big boy pants and grow up and become a global leader the US did bounce back in double time all but three of the ships damaged or sunk on December 7th were raised repaired and sailed again in fact by the end of the war the US had chased down and destroyed every Japanese aircraft carrier used to launch the attack this is the greatest Generation in the world and we're down to the handful left thank you for your service thank you Wally like most of the other 40,000 or so enlisted men on aahu that day was just a teenager back then but history's clock is Relentless I see their faces right before me and know they're gone Pearl Harbor's Chief historian Daniel Martinez has worked here for 32 years and with each passing anniversary he worries the collective memory of December 7th is fading most of the young people that come here don't have a clue what happened at this place they don't even know who won the War how will we remember World War II after they're gone this was a huge open part of the harbor darinda Nicholson now lives in Kansas City Missouri but has made the nearly 5,000 m trip here to Pearl Harbor for almost every anniversary to tell her story sometimes bringing with her the tiny gas mask that she and her brother wore as children in the days after the attack so why did you keep this all those years oh it's my my history it was history that changed her life and ours the cry remember Pearl harber sounds pretty obvious but the challenge for the next generation is to really remember absent those who will no longer be here to remind us face to face they are my heroes and I will tell their stories as long as I live
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