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.:]CF[:.Hybrid Goose · 04-04-2003, 10:35 PM

My grandfather was at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed. He was a mechanic and they had just pulled into the dock and the ship in the current slot they were going to moved where his ship was. Ironically that other ship was the first to get hit... He survived. He was given an accomadation for shooting down a plane...i'm not sure if it was a bomber or a torpedor or what, but I know he did...I've seen the medals and I've heard his story.

He never spoke about it until the movie came out we took him to go see it and he was in tears after it was over. He explained how when they had to try to get guys out of sunken areas. He told me about opening airlocked places with dead bodies hitting them everywhere.

My grandfather is my idol...he was the reason I went into the military.

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.:]CF[:.Hybrid Goose is Offline Junior Member Posts: 4 Join Date: Jan 2003	04-04-2003, 10:35 PM My grandfather was at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed. He was a mechanic and they had just pulled into the dock and the ship in the current slot they were going to moved where his ship was. Ironically that other ship was the first to get hit... He survived. He was given an accomadation for shooting down a plane...i'm not sure if it was a bomber or a torpedor or what, but I know he did...I've seen the medals and I've heard his story. He never spoke about it until the movie came out we took him to go see it and he was in tears after it was over. He explained how when they had to try to get guys out of sunken areas. He told me about opening airlocked places with dead bodies hitting them everywhere. My grandfather is my idol...he was the reason I went into the military.