My Dad was a Pearl Harbor Survivor. He turned 18 a few weeks before the attack, lived to be 96. He never spoke much about his experiences until his later years. After he got involved with the local VFW chapter, he began speaking to school and community groups, proudly had a PHS license plate and wants his ashes to be buried at the Punchbowl cemetery in Hawaii.

All of them are over 98 years old.. OMG bless their hearts

@RetroRogue.

2 жыл бұрын

It's crazy there are only a few left.

@roanmatthewcaritativo5685

2 жыл бұрын

@@RetroRogue. there are still 200 to 300k ww2 veteran and a hundred left for pearl harbor survivors

My great grandfather served as a navy cook on the Maryland, and he always made sure his sailors had their own birthday cake, Which meant he would cook two or three a day, sometimes. He was there during Pearl Harbor. He said they were mad on his ship because the Oklahoma came and blocked their sea breeze and ocean view. However, that night when he hears the tapping of the sailors trapped from the Oklahoma having sunk, he said he felt so guilty about being upset about an old sea breeze. It changed him. He never came home to my great grandmother and his two little girls. They reunited when my grandmother was in her 40’s, and so I was able to spend a summer on his farm with him when I was 12. He still had the steel dishes from ship that he cooked in. He passed away on his beloved tractor, on a mountain in Portland Oregon, the same tractor I rode on with him as a young girl of twelve. Now my daughter and her husband and their family are stationed in Hawaii, and his great great great grandchildren are being raised on the beaches that saw so much horror. I just know he as at peace now. Thank you to these men for speaking out bc so many could never talk about it again.🇺🇸

I retired out the navy and my last duty was on a destroyer in pearl harbor, these guys are true heros, got to meet a couple while stationed there at reunions..

My grandfather is a Pearl harbor survivor, lived to be 89 years old died in 1992. He served on the U.S.S. Daede as a Boilermaker/Boiler repair man and fought in the battle at Okinawa as well

I went there. And tears came down

What patriots! 🇺🇸🎁Wonderful story. Thank you. Almost in tears. Yup, from southern Colorado. Merry Christmas veterans!!

Thank you for this thorough and respectful interview. The questions that needed to be asked were asked and respect was conveyed throughout. Thank you again to these Veterans, and a thank you to Ralph above and beyond. As incredibly tough on the soul as this had to be on all these Men, I have to think it was a bit harder for him at times. I love you and thank you for your service, and I'm sorry that memories still continue from this dark and heavy period.

American heroes. Thank you for your service.

Thank you to these veterans, and all the veterans who are and have served to protect me and my fellow Americans. There truly are no words to convey my appreciation.

My Uncle Paul was a Pearl Harbor Survivor ! Philadelphia chapter of Pearl Harbor Survivors Association ! He was on an Ammunition Ship! I was fortunate to meet many members at the annual summer picnic held at my Uncle's home!

God Bless. My Dad's Age. Crew. Navy. Went in After Attack For Recovery Efforts. Thank You Soldiers. God Blessed. My Dad Would Of Been. 101yr. September. Same Age As My Dad. David. Thank you Soldiers.

I know I've been declared an enemy of the people, but this liberal veteran thanks you boys from the bottom of my heart. I was stationed at Pearl,. I've smelled the Arizona's blood. Heroes all. Thank you, boys..

Great segment. Thank you all, God bless those men

Went two months ago. You must go. Truly that event made America One nation.

We will never forget our Heroes!

My Dad Had P.T.S.D BAD. Died At 58yrs. From. Ww2. God Bless these. HEROS.

God bless all who perished and those who survived. You forever deserve our respect. Thank you all for your service and sacrifice.

Great ww2 video. My late father, A.Steven Herndon was a Ww2 veteran... abroad the USS Californian, after Pearl Harbor. He was a radio operator for four years. He loved it ...I believe! Awesome story, plus, it’s truly amazing and sadly true! Thank you.

Great segment. Thank you all

I truly love your videos! Wish I could put them on CD to listen to them on my stereo!

In January 1998 I was 17 and on my last family vacation. We visited the big white pearl harbor monument and I remember being amazed seeing the oil bubbles coming up to the surface and knowing dead soldiers where still buried within the ship below. My grandfather fought in the pacific in WWII.

Wooooooow over a hundred years old 😳. This is amazing my respect 💓 to them ❤️. Thank you for your service 🙏.

Mahalo for remembering 🌄🌈🏝❤😪😇😥

True America Patriots and heroes. God Bless you all and thank you for your service 🇺🇸❤️

amazing and speechless!

This is very sobering! At 100? Here we are, fed up with living, while in our twenties, thirties? Kudos to these great people!

Thank You.

Excellent video!

My godfather Dean Haas was at Pearl Harbor. I was young when I heard him talking about it and it took me well into adulthood to stop hating anyone from Japan. My Dad served in WWll. When my grandpa Charlie died of a heart attack I believed he was shot by a tank. I was 5 so didn't fully understand all I overheard about Pearl Harbor and WWll.

God bless those men

God bless you gentlemen for your service and commitment to give your lives to save us! ❤😪😇😎🎄🌈🏝🌄🎁

Thank you to all the WWII veterans, especially those at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The horrors they witnessed, and the horrors yet to come for them until Auguest 1945 are unimaginable. In the HBO series Band of Brothers, I can't remember which vet, but one says, You lost something over there and you never got it back. I feel so sad for all of these men and women, who through no fault of their own, were witness to such horrors and came home to a world that didn't understand what they had been through. Some were able to adjust, some drank or otherwise ended that suffering too soon. We all owe them a great debt of gratitude. God bless ALL of our veterans.💜

WOW ~ respect

Only the U.S.S. Arizona and U.S.S. Oklahoma were complete write-offs. The U.S.S. Maryland was anchored inboard, so suffered the least damage, along with the U.S.S. Pennsylvania. The six battleships were eventually repaired and returned to duty, but aside from a brief ship to ship encounter in the Surigao Strait in 1944, the old battleships mostly performed shore bombardments for the rest of the war.

@briansonnenfelt7125

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USS Utah was also never salvaged.

Humble men. I wish all students watch videos like this one. Maybe just maybe they will uphold the no.1 commandment.

Eight battleships weren't "destroyed". Through heroic efforts, the Navy refloated most of those ships and they continued to fight.

Bless these beautiful souls ❤️❣️❤️

Honor Courage Commitment

Amazing. They always give meaning to the word General issue.

May they all have a Merry Christmas.

Yes, thank you for respecting the many women and families who sacrificed so much during WWII ! ⚓⛵⚓🥰

"Wishing all Pearl Harbor Survivors and those who died December 7, 1941, a Happy Voyage Home"! GO NAVY! 🥰⚓⛵⚓

God bless everyone of them they are the true fathers and mothers of these nations 🙏 ❤️

God bless our Service Men❤

When the next great anniversary rolls around, these men will be long gone..that's a desperately sad thought.

Awesome

Go Navy!!

Yayyyy these wonderful brave MEN that love America 🗽💃❣️

GOD BLESS YOU BRAVE MEN 🇺🇸

They were young when FDR was president and the last of the Civil War veterans still walked the Earth.

Thous men are something we can never imagine living up to.

American Patriots, God Bless them and their families.

❤❤

Why didn’t the correspondent talk more with the Japanese American Veteran?

Charles J. SLAMA Jr. Ww2 Navy. Pearl Harbor Recovery. Efforts

Thanks to our troops we can feel safe and Karen's can feel a little too comfortable.

I mean they warned us, so surprised.

Never forgive.

Remember when we ran Japan so bad they started drawing anime

I can't forgive them either

🇺🇸♥️

Day of iinfamy

Thank God for our liberal FDR and his leadership during WWII.

Completely different experience for African American soldiers

A hundred ten thousand lives? Ok 8:50

Banzai!

If only the Nimitz had a chance to engage.

US dropping that’s bomb 💣 in Japan showed them, that US have greater bomb and silent them the war had to end, when they know who is the boss

BREAKING: Joe Biden was taking calls from the NORAD Santa tracking program and a dad ended the call with "Merry Christmas, and Let's Go Brandon." Biden replied with: "Let's Go Brandon, I agree"

@daren5666

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I love MAGAT tears! 🥰

@MAGApepe

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@@daren5666 i love demoRAT tears !!!

@MAGApepe

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@@daren5666 is your wife named karen ??? haahah

They ignored experts, they want to screw EU fishermen, they ridiculed any that told them politicians were telling lies. My sympathies are for the population that voted to stay and still have to leave. Fishermen and Farmers got what they were told would happen by experts, at least they learned a lesson votes have consequences.

I can understand people wanting a memorial for a few days but, these memorials can stay for months or even years. It's someone else's property: you don't own it because someone died there.

@Ethan.s..

6 ай бұрын

So the Lincoln memorial should be removed? Over stayed it’s welcome for you?

And people are honouring *🇯🇵Japanese fans* in FIFA World Cup currently going on in Qatar why ? Cuz they supposedly cleaning the garbage !! 🇯🇵 Japan did some really horrible stuff to a whole lot of people .

@andrewhatcher2702

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Yeah, but c’mon. The people picking up trash at the World Cup didnt have anything to do with this.

Remember that the US gov had warning of the attack but did not alert anyone to have an excuse to enter the war...

They knew Japan was going to attack, they knew.