Kenneth M. Salmon US Navy |
We were all sitting ducks. I saw the Arizona go up. The Oklahoma rolled over alongside of us. I did know a few people on all the battleships and 2-3 cruisers. There is not a day in my life that I don't think of those sailors that lost their lives that day and I have no compassion for the Japs to this day. I went on to retire from the Navy in 1960 (1 battleship, 4 carriers, 7 minesweepers, 1 AKA, 1 Icebreaker). About the only place I didn't hit was Rangoon and Singapore. All over the orient including China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, South Pole and North Pole. I would do it again. I probably resent the fact that I'm so old and I can't do it again. There are a lot of others that feel the same way. |
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