"It was bad "

[h=1]A Pearl Harbor survivor spent decades trying to forget it. Then one man got him talking.[/h]
A Pearl Harbor survivor spent decades trying to forget it. Then one man got him talking. - LA Times

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Didn't know where to post this. Nothing here to debate... only Honor.

God Bless.

From Fox News an excerpt from Donald Stratton's book All The Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor:

President Roosevelt was right to call it “a date that will live in infamy.” But for my fellow survivors and me, it also is alive in memory, like shrapnel left embedded in our brains because the surgeon thought it too dangerous to operate.

Those images remain with us survivors seventy-five years later. Sometimes they intrude into our day, a moment spontaneously combusting, and suddenly we are back in the flames that engulfed our ship or in the oil-slick waters that surrounded it.

Sometimes they come to us in the night, a haunt of images that troubles our sleep. Or perhaps the phone rings, and we flinch. Or a car backfires, and instinctively we duck.

These memories lie within me, forever still and silent, like the men entombed in the Arizona. Others, like the oil that seeps from its wreckage, slip around inside me until they find a way out and make their way to the surface, where they pool and sometimes catch fire. Pearl Harbor survivor: What I saw aboard the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941 | Fox News