Quote Originally Posted by MNlad View Post
I was fortunate enough to have a witness of that fateful attack as a high school history teacher. ... While I don't personally remember Pearl Harbor, that gentleman taught me a lesson I will never forget.
Like you, my life has been touched by gentleman who was there, that fateful morning.

My neighbor, Gordon, was a naval aviation mate, stationed at the naval air station at Pearl Harbor. When the heck broke loose, Gordon responded to arms locker where the Navy stored the machine guns for the PBY's, etc., that were in for maintenance, and grabbed a gun, while another seaman got some ammunition. They then went to a nearby test mount, where a third sailor had already removed the retaining pins, that kept the mount in a fixed direction (towards target butts), they mounted, and loaded the machine gun, and between them, did their best to put return fire on the enemy aircraft.