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(heartfelt music)

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- After the first three inch fired,

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which was right below us, I don't remember hearing anything.

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(air raid siren)

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That's all past to me.

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All my Navy career is past history.

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but 20 some years ago, I go up the Punchbowl.

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Little lady comes to the counter there,

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and she says, can I help you?

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I say can you tell me where the Pearl Harbor casualties

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are buried in this cemetery?

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She says, no, are you kidding?

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I say, no ma'am, I'm not kidding, I'm damn serious.

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She says, I'm sorry, I can't help you.

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So I start walkin' and I ran across all these unknowns,

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and to me that is pretty sad.

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I have spent the last 26 years working on that cemetery.

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Getting gravemarkers updated, so forth and so on.

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Most of my spare time has been in that back room,

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doing research.

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I computerized all World War II Navy, Coast Guard

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and Marine Corps casualties.

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68,000 roughly.

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What's next, I don't know.