Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.

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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.

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I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

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I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.

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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

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