WEBVTT 00:04.349 --> 00:08.516 - Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to Pearl Harbor. 00:09.463 --> 00:11.262 On behalf of the National Parks Service, 00:11.262 --> 00:13.108 this press conference is being held 00:13.108 --> 00:15.820 at the Pearl Harbor Visitors Center. 00:15.820 --> 00:17.975 It's from here the tours depart 00:17.975 --> 00:21.657 that take guests to the memorial and return them. 00:21.657 --> 00:25.824 This is also the place where Pacific Historic Parks 00:26.216 --> 00:29.731 has its association, which runs the book store 00:29.731 --> 00:33.871 and the Association of the Missouri, the USS Bowfin, 00:33.871 --> 00:36.298 and the Pacific Aviation Museum. 00:36.298 --> 00:39.821 Before you, I have three Pearl Harbor survivors 00:39.821 --> 00:43.031 and respectively, we will introduce them, 00:43.031 --> 00:45.276 so that you can get their names down 00:45.276 --> 00:47.923 and then we'll begin the questions at the end 00:47.923 --> 00:51.098 and I'm gonna allow them to introduce themselves. 00:51.098 --> 00:53.640 So that's how the press conference will work. 00:53.640 --> 00:56.947 I will, I have four questions and if we can get 00:56.947 --> 00:59.457 through those questions in enough time, 00:59.457 --> 01:02.162 there will be an additional follow-up question 01:02.162 --> 01:03.579 that we can take. 01:04.889 --> 01:07.551 First of all, Michael, will you introduce yourself? 01:07.551 --> 01:09.830 - My name is Michael "Mickey" Ganitch. 01:09.830 --> 01:13.202 I was on the USS Pennsylvania in Pearl Harbor, 01:13.202 --> 01:15.619 December 7th, 1941 at age 22. 01:16.390 --> 01:17.223 - Okay. 01:17.385 --> 01:18.502 (mumbling) 01:18.502 --> 01:22.335 - Stuart Hedley, aboard the USS West Virginia, 01:23.346 --> 01:27.429 Seaman First Class, battle station Turret 3 and-- 01:31.156 --> 01:32.539 - And your age at the time? 01:32.539 --> 01:36.706 - Age at the time, 20 year old brat that grew up overnight. 01:37.791 --> 01:38.958 - Jack Holder. 01:39.847 --> 01:43.597 I was a flight engineer based on Port Island, 01:43.701 --> 01:44.784 19 years old. 01:46.425 --> 01:48.010 - And how, 19 at the time? 01:48.010 --> 01:49.219 - 19 at the time. 01:49.219 --> 01:50.542 - And what squadron were you in? 01:50.542 --> 01:51.375 - PP-23. 01:51.642 --> 01:52.475 - PP-23. 01:53.099 --> 01:55.090 Alright, gentlemen, I'm gonna start off the questions 01:55.090 --> 01:57.723 and I'll go from right here where Michael is 01:57.723 --> 02:00.124 all the way down, so I'll allow you to finish that 02:00.124 --> 02:03.064 and then we'll move on to the next gentleman. 02:03.064 --> 02:06.397 Michael, when you think of Pearl Harbor, 02:08.100 --> 02:12.267 and you're sitting alone, what's that most vivid memory 02:12.534 --> 02:14.117 that comes to mind? 02:15.262 --> 02:17.095 - "Wow, we're at war!" 02:18.187 --> 02:19.364 We didn't know about this. 02:19.364 --> 02:21.777 We talked about it, but we didn't really think 02:21.777 --> 02:24.550 it would be happening because we were so strong, 02:24.550 --> 02:28.717 we didn't think anybody would dare attack us and they did. 02:28.858 --> 02:30.702 - Where were you at that moment? 02:30.702 --> 02:33.436 - I was on the battleship Pennsylvania there 02:33.436 --> 02:36.545 in the delivery compartment in my football uniform, 02:36.545 --> 02:38.990 because we were scheduled to play the USS Arizona 02:38.990 --> 02:41.460 for the fleet football championship that day. 02:41.460 --> 02:44.751 We'd do a little scrimmaging with out the pads on 02:44.751 --> 02:48.117 in at that time, I was living in the compartment 02:48.117 --> 02:50.858 right underneath the side of where propellers are. 02:50.858 --> 02:52.613 - When did you realize the attack 02:52.613 --> 02:54.142 was coming from the Japanese? 02:54.142 --> 02:57.140 - I had a phone call over the phone in there. 02:57.140 --> 02:59.390 And what the fella says is, 02:59.462 --> 03:02.230 "The Japanese are attacking Pearl Harbor." 03:02.230 --> 03:03.063 I said, 03:03.063 --> 03:04.407 "Oh, come on quit talking like that." 03:04.407 --> 03:06.777 We'd been talking about it but we didn't think it'd happen. 03:06.777 --> 03:09.158 About that time, the ship shuddered there. 03:09.158 --> 03:12.381 Some of the people close to the guns saw what was going on, 03:12.381 --> 03:14.363 they started shooting before the rest of the people 03:14.363 --> 03:16.231 on the ship knew what was going on. 03:16.231 --> 03:18.016 About that time, battle stations went, 03:18.016 --> 03:20.223 "All hands, man your battle stations." 03:20.223 --> 03:21.663 I didn't have time to change clothes. 03:21.663 --> 03:24.107 I was in my football uniform, ready to leave the ship 03:24.107 --> 03:27.500 to get ready for that game with the USS Arizona that day. 03:27.500 --> 03:29.500 - Now that is a vivid memory. 03:29.500 --> 03:30.884 (laughing) 03:30.884 --> 03:32.977 Stu, your vivid memory, when did, 03:32.977 --> 03:36.541 when you sit alone and you think about Pearl Harbor, 03:36.541 --> 03:38.124 what comes to mind? 03:39.287 --> 03:41.755 - Oh, that the-- (helicopter flying) 03:41.755 --> 03:45.922 - Hold on, we'll wait until the helicopter goes out. 03:46.645 --> 03:48.353 - [Man] And Stu, can you please look this way 03:48.353 --> 03:50.392 so we can see your face as you answer? 03:50.392 --> 03:51.225 Thank you. 03:51.747 --> 03:55.295 - The sun affects my eyes and I don't want to sneeze. 03:55.295 --> 03:57.490 Probably will sneeze. (laughing) 03:57.490 --> 03:59.157 - [Man] That's fine. 03:59.406 --> 04:01.322 (helicopter buzzing) 04:01.322 --> 04:02.155 - Let me know when you're-- 04:02.155 --> 04:03.159 - The thing that comes to my mind 04:03.159 --> 04:07.326 is the 2,000 some odd sailors that gave their lives 04:09.622 --> 04:12.122 that morning so that you and I 04:12.461 --> 04:16.128 can have the freedom that we have right now. 04:16.492 --> 04:20.659 - Now Stu, when did you realize what was happening? 04:21.509 --> 04:24.676 What did you see and how did you feel? 04:24.891 --> 04:28.974 - At about 6:45, I was in the Quartermaster shack 04:33.309 --> 04:37.309 down on the bottom deck in the stern of the ship 04:39.920 --> 04:43.587 when the word went out over the loudspeaker, 04:43.653 --> 04:46.153 "Away, fire and rescue party." 04:46.777 --> 04:50.944 The officer on the deck saw the fire over on Port Island 04:51.570 --> 04:54.903 but didn't realize we were under attack. 04:54.942 --> 04:58.076 But I made a beeline to get to my locker, 04:58.076 --> 05:01.076 put my hat on my head, and as I did, 05:01.730 --> 05:04.250 I got kicked right in the seat of the pants 05:04.250 --> 05:06.754 by a First Class Bosun, who said, 05:06.754 --> 05:09.738 "Hey, get to your battle station on the double. 05:09.738 --> 05:11.821 "This is the real thing." 05:12.321 --> 05:14.154 I went out on topside. 05:14.651 --> 05:17.697 Planes were diving from every direction 05:17.697 --> 05:21.697 and I saw Lieutenant Commander White, our pilot, 05:22.220 --> 05:26.220 underneath the gun tub, firing away with his .45 05:27.260 --> 05:30.848 and I dove under there with him and I thought, 05:30.848 --> 05:33.265 "What kind of a war is this?" 05:33.449 --> 05:35.853 And he, I didn't ask any questions. 05:35.853 --> 05:38.852 I'm a Seaman, he's the Lieutenant Commander. 05:38.852 --> 05:39.852 And he said, 05:39.930 --> 05:42.109 "Son, where's your battle station?" 05:42.109 --> 05:44.192 I pointed up to Turret 3. 05:44.406 --> 05:46.870 "Jet up there as fast as you can." 05:46.870 --> 05:49.170 As I was going up the port bladder, 05:49.170 --> 05:53.319 here come a Japanese torpedo plane down the port side. 05:53.319 --> 05:55.964 I could see the pilot, the co-pilot, 05:55.964 --> 05:59.131 the radioman laughing like everything. 05:59.508 --> 06:01.341 Got inside the turret. 06:01.674 --> 06:04.674 Only two of us manned the right gun, 06:05.139 --> 06:08.501 fellow by the name of Krauslin and myself. 06:08.501 --> 06:12.668 We later learned that the left gun had 11 men in it. 06:13.262 --> 06:16.271 There should have been 12 in each side. 06:16.271 --> 06:19.774 - So Stu, going back, when you think about that moment, 06:19.774 --> 06:23.527 that just singular moment, what is that moment? 06:23.527 --> 06:27.360 - War is upon us and before I joined the Navy, 06:31.670 --> 06:34.390 I realized we were gonna be at war 06:34.390 --> 06:38.057 and so I enlisted rather than being drafted. 06:39.591 --> 06:40.724 - Okay, I'm gonna move on 06:40.724 --> 06:43.641 to the next question for you, Jack. 06:43.849 --> 06:48.016 When you think about Pearl Harbor, sitting on that couch, 06:48.758 --> 06:52.258 what comes to mind, vividly comes to mind? 06:52.585 --> 06:54.066 - Well, at the time, 06:54.066 --> 06:57.649 I was a Navy Machinist's Mate Second Class. 06:57.810 --> 07:00.560 I joined the Navy April 24, 1940. 07:03.635 --> 07:06.103 I was a Second Class, as I said, then. 07:06.103 --> 07:10.270 I was a flight engineer on a PBY VB-23 based on Port Island. 07:10.409 --> 07:12.136 I had the duty that day. 07:12.136 --> 07:13.670 We had just fell in for muster 07:13.670 --> 07:16.117 when the section leader began roll call. 07:16.117 --> 07:18.623 We heard a screaming engine and just moments later, 07:18.623 --> 07:21.123 we heard a terrible explosion. 07:21.355 --> 07:23.499 We thought probably one of our own aircraft 07:23.499 --> 07:26.582 had crashed right outside the hangar. 07:26.924 --> 07:29.674 The hangar adjacent to us, VB-21, 07:30.322 --> 07:33.528 received the first bomb that fell on Port Island. 07:33.528 --> 07:35.826 Fortunately, they hit an empty hangar. 07:35.826 --> 07:39.618 VB-21 was in the Philippines on advanced base training. 07:39.618 --> 07:42.091 But then we looked in the sky, 07:42.091 --> 07:44.221 we seen all these aircraft circling 07:44.221 --> 07:47.248 over the horizon sunny in the morning. 07:47.248 --> 07:50.665 It was disbelief, fear, anger, disbelief. 07:51.431 --> 07:54.326 You can think of a thousand things. 07:54.326 --> 07:56.676 I've been asked that, what my thoughts were, 07:56.676 --> 08:00.759 but you've got so many you can't corner them all. 08:01.355 --> 08:03.923 It so happened that one of my shipmates remembered 08:03.923 --> 08:08.090 there was a sewer line behind our hangar under construction. 08:08.612 --> 08:09.445 He says, 08:09.712 --> 08:11.285 "Let's go for the ditch, follow me." 08:11.285 --> 08:13.363 We all ran, jumped in this ditch. 08:13.363 --> 08:16.264 It so happened that one of the pilots seen us, 08:16.264 --> 08:20.085 circled, straightened the ditch, hit the dirt piled up 08:20.085 --> 08:24.076 on the sides of the ditch, missing us by three feet. 08:24.076 --> 08:25.972 I've been asked what my thoughts were at that time 08:25.972 --> 08:28.972 but I guess my most vivid memory is, 08:29.104 --> 08:32.854 "God, please don't let me die in this ditch." 08:33.301 --> 08:36.276 We then came out, seen all of our aircraft on fire, 08:36.276 --> 08:40.443 seen ships sinking, I seen the Arizona, West Virginia, 08:40.811 --> 08:44.811 Tennessee, Utah, California, all smoking planes. 08:47.879 --> 08:49.879 It was a terrible sight. 08:49.947 --> 08:51.447 - Thank you, Jack. 08:51.532 --> 08:53.699 The next question for you, 08:53.868 --> 08:56.376 we'll start again with you, Michael. 08:56.376 --> 09:00.543 What is going through your mind this 75th anniversary, 09:01.054 --> 09:05.054 this week that you visit the site of the attack? 09:05.185 --> 09:09.185 - So many of our people that I knew passed away. 09:09.989 --> 09:11.689 In fact, one of my neighbors who lived 09:11.689 --> 09:13.297 about 100 yards down the street, 09:13.297 --> 09:14.761 I played football against him. 09:14.761 --> 09:18.191 We went to high school together and I found out later 09:18.191 --> 09:21.858 that he was on the USS Arizona at that time. 09:22.435 --> 09:25.609 But this time we had to do what we were trained to do. 09:25.609 --> 09:29.424 We'd had training there during the week before Pearl Harbor. 09:29.424 --> 09:33.126 We'd come in port to have our games and church services 09:33.126 --> 09:36.563 and all, but now, everything had changed there. 09:36.563 --> 09:38.956 We're at war and we've got to do our duty, 09:38.956 --> 09:42.158 what we're trained to do there, and we did our duty. 09:42.158 --> 09:45.009 - But what do you think about when you walk around the site 09:45.009 --> 09:47.842 of the attack, now 75 years later? 09:48.274 --> 09:49.293 What are you looking for? 09:49.293 --> 09:50.960 How are you feeling? 09:50.989 --> 09:53.343 - I'm looking for the place where, the dry dock 09:53.343 --> 09:55.768 where my ship was at that time. 09:55.768 --> 09:57.123 That's the first thing, then. 09:57.123 --> 10:00.493 Then I think about the 23 men that died that day, 10:00.493 --> 10:03.576 some of the people I personally knew. 10:03.659 --> 10:07.826 It happened there and we thought it would not happen, 10:07.964 --> 10:10.995 it could not happen there, but it did happen there 10:10.995 --> 10:14.590 and we had to do something about it and we did do it. 10:14.590 --> 10:15.590 - Okay, thank you. 10:15.590 --> 10:19.437 Stu, when you walk around this battlefield, Oahu, 10:19.437 --> 10:21.469 because it's not only Pearl Harbor 10:21.469 --> 10:23.356 but it's the airfields as well, 10:23.356 --> 10:24.896 what comes to mind? 10:24.896 --> 10:29.063 How do you feel about coming back to Pearl Harbor? 10:29.237 --> 10:33.404 - It's nostalgic, really, because of the fact that 10:34.543 --> 10:37.710 the thing that goes through my mind is 10:38.079 --> 10:42.246 the thousands of families that lost their loved ones 10:44.595 --> 10:48.345 that broke up husbands and wives and children 10:50.956 --> 10:53.123 that never knew their dad. 10:56.169 --> 11:00.336 It's sort of a sad situation but the whole idea is 11:04.692 --> 11:08.859 we're here to keep the remembrance of what happened that day 11:10.650 --> 11:12.851 so it doesn't happen again. 11:12.851 --> 11:13.927 - Thanks, Stu. 11:13.927 --> 11:17.582 Jack, when you walk around this place and maybe go 11:17.582 --> 11:20.439 to Port Island or something and you see this site again 11:20.439 --> 11:23.577 after 75 years, how do you feel about that? 11:23.577 --> 11:25.546 - Well, it's a relief, it's a healing action, 11:25.546 --> 11:28.713 and it, just seeing my shipmates here, 11:29.895 --> 11:33.101 all of these shipmates that I never knew before, 11:33.101 --> 11:36.459 people that were on different ships, different locations, 11:36.459 --> 11:40.626 it's a revelation to me to meet all these fine shipmates 11:41.486 --> 11:44.319 and it's, as I said, it's healing. 11:45.359 --> 11:49.526 When I walk around my hangar, I see my hangar, Hangar 54 11:50.246 --> 11:53.224 on Port Island, I remember the whole thing. 11:53.224 --> 11:54.057 It's-- 11:55.570 --> 11:57.228 - Does it come alive for you? 11:57.228 --> 12:00.145 - It come alive, I never forget it. 12:04.270 --> 12:06.732 - The question for you, Michael, and we'll go down the line 12:06.732 --> 12:09.151 on here, what would you like to say 12:09.151 --> 12:12.702 to the current generation of servicemen, servicewomen 12:12.702 --> 12:16.035 who are now following in your footsteps? 12:16.740 --> 12:19.929 - A lot of the problems that we've had nowadays here, 12:19.929 --> 12:22.262 the children are not trained 12:22.505 --> 12:25.838 to be accountable for their own actions. 12:26.572 --> 12:28.847 I was a kid there, I did things wrong, 12:28.847 --> 12:30.930 but I got spanked for it. 12:31.212 --> 12:33.848 Really, I didn't mind it because I did something wrong. 12:33.848 --> 12:35.169 I learned by it. 12:35.169 --> 12:38.081 Now, the kids nowadays there would be accountable 12:38.081 --> 12:40.468 for their actions, maybe, I know they're scared 12:40.468 --> 12:43.208 about the child abuse and all that there, 12:43.208 --> 12:47.375 but the stopping allowing them to spoil the child there. 12:49.172 --> 12:51.969 But I think if they could learn by experience, 12:51.969 --> 12:55.016 if they make a mistake, don't be afraid to admit it there 12:55.016 --> 12:56.887 and be accountable for your own actions. 12:56.887 --> 12:59.504 Don't depend on someone, don't try to blame someone else. 12:59.504 --> 13:01.818 If you did something wrong, be accountable for it 13:01.818 --> 13:04.996 and I think the world would be better, they'd be better, 13:04.996 --> 13:06.367 and the family would be better, 13:06.367 --> 13:08.467 everybody would be around them there 13:08.467 --> 13:10.967 if they'd be accountable for their own actions. 13:10.967 --> 13:12.332 - Feeling pretty strong about that, 13:12.332 --> 13:16.011 but let me ask you again, what about the servicemen 13:16.011 --> 13:17.928 that are serving today? 13:18.006 --> 13:19.031 - The servicemen? 13:19.031 --> 13:21.473 - How do you feel about them following in your footsteps? 13:21.473 --> 13:25.640 - Oh, if they're going into the service just to serve 13:25.676 --> 13:28.406 and that's all, they're wasting time, 13:28.406 --> 13:30.538 but if they want to go make a man of them 13:30.538 --> 13:32.245 in life, I became a man that day 13:32.245 --> 13:35.537 because I realized I had something to do, 13:35.537 --> 13:37.872 something of importance there, 13:37.872 --> 13:40.196 and if they would realize there 13:40.196 --> 13:42.915 that whatever they do, it depends on them. 13:42.915 --> 13:45.546 If they want to make something of theirselves, they'd do it 13:45.546 --> 13:47.646 but don't, you know, figure 13:47.646 --> 13:51.471 that the world's given you a silver spoon there. 13:51.471 --> 13:53.368 Be accountable for your own actions there, 13:53.368 --> 13:55.032 and the world is for you. 13:55.032 --> 13:56.032 You make it. 13:56.482 --> 13:59.135 Don't just be there just to have a job and so on. 13:59.135 --> 14:02.059 Try to improve yourself and be a man. 14:02.059 --> 14:03.646 There's no stopping you. 14:03.646 --> 14:06.529 - Stu, how do feel about this current generation 14:06.529 --> 14:08.700 of servicemen and servicewomen 14:08.700 --> 14:11.700 who have followed in your footsteps? 14:12.322 --> 14:14.905 - Goes right back to our motto. 14:15.234 --> 14:18.901 "Remember Pearl Harbor, Keep America Alert," 14:20.936 --> 14:24.103 and I don't hesitate to tell our kids, 14:24.132 --> 14:25.799 "America is asleep." 14:27.482 --> 14:28.315 - Okay. 14:28.810 --> 14:31.570 Jack, how do you feel about the servicemen and servicewomen 14:31.570 --> 14:34.653 that are following in your footsteps? 14:35.300 --> 14:39.061 - Well, as my friend here, my shipmate Mickey just said, 14:39.061 --> 14:41.349 the Navy is a great teacher. 14:41.349 --> 14:44.535 It teaches discipline and it turns a boy into a man 14:44.535 --> 14:46.294 and that's what happened to me. 14:46.294 --> 14:49.103 I give presentations all over the country, 14:49.103 --> 14:50.936 many different states. 14:51.007 --> 14:54.356 I just came back from Washington DC for awhile, 14:54.356 --> 14:55.495 but I tell all the kids, 14:55.495 --> 14:57.892 "We live in the greatest nation in the world. 14:57.892 --> 14:59.901 "I joined the Navy, I took an oath, 14:59.901 --> 15:01.791 "and I tried to live up to it." 15:01.791 --> 15:04.044 They live in the greatest country in the world, 15:04.044 --> 15:05.542 they need to respect it. 15:05.542 --> 15:07.683 If they're called on, they need to do it. 15:07.683 --> 15:08.683 - Thank you. 15:09.152 --> 15:10.867 I have one last question. 15:10.867 --> 15:15.034 We learned today that Prime Minister Abe and the President 15:18.004 --> 15:20.835 will be meeting at the end of the month and be going 15:20.835 --> 15:24.795 to the USS Arizona Memorial to pay their respects. 15:24.795 --> 15:27.250 I'd like to know what your reaction is 15:27.250 --> 15:29.333 to this historic meeting. 15:29.806 --> 15:31.723 Michael, first for you. 15:31.819 --> 15:33.889 - If Japan was our enemy once there, 15:33.889 --> 15:36.778 now they're one of our good friends there. 15:36.778 --> 15:40.824 To me it's like a football game, okay, any sport there. 15:40.824 --> 15:43.334 Your enemy's on the field there, maybe you'll go out 15:43.334 --> 15:45.452 to supper together, you can't change what happened. 15:45.452 --> 15:46.633 Think about the future. 15:46.633 --> 15:49.165 If we can be friends with them, the more friends 15:49.165 --> 15:51.306 that we have, the better the world will be, 15:51.306 --> 15:53.272 the better our country will be. 15:53.272 --> 15:54.700 This is the best country there is. 15:54.700 --> 15:55.871 They don't like this country, 15:55.871 --> 15:57.809 I'll help them move to another country. 15:57.809 --> 16:00.031 (laughing) 16:00.031 --> 16:03.116 - Michael, I'm glad you have an opinion. 16:03.116 --> 16:05.297 (laughing) 16:05.297 --> 16:07.520 Stu, I want to repeat the question. 16:07.520 --> 16:11.687 I wanted to know how you feel about the President Obama 16:12.023 --> 16:14.296 and Prime Minister Abe meeting together 16:14.296 --> 16:17.129 to go to the USS Arizona Memorial. 16:17.487 --> 16:18.320 - Sad. 16:25.220 --> 16:27.803 I really truthfully do not have 16:32.297 --> 16:35.130 any feeling towards it whatsoever. 16:36.296 --> 16:37.129 - Okay. 16:38.057 --> 16:42.224 Jack, the President is going to meet with President, 16:42.509 --> 16:45.366 rather, from Prime Minister Abe from Japan 16:45.366 --> 16:48.698 and they're going together as a, for a meeting 16:48.698 --> 16:52.043 and reconciliation on the USS Arizona Memorial. 16:52.043 --> 16:54.274 How do you feel about that? 16:54.274 --> 16:55.993 - Well, the first time I though about this, 16:55.993 --> 16:58.410 I wish the Premier from Japan 16:58.537 --> 17:01.299 would be meeting with Donald Trump. 17:01.299 --> 17:03.774 I have no respect for our leadership now. 17:03.774 --> 17:04.607 - Amen. 17:05.032 --> 17:09.199 - I think the country is in a terrible condition now. 17:09.355 --> 17:11.457 As I once said awhile ago, 17:11.457 --> 17:13.601 we live in the greatest nation in the world 17:13.601 --> 17:16.355 and it has the potential to return it to that 17:16.355 --> 17:18.728 but not under this leadership. 17:18.728 --> 17:21.011 We've got to have more control. 17:21.011 --> 17:25.178 I've talked to so many people, so many military people 17:25.869 --> 17:30.036 that have relayed what has failed and I'm very disappointed. 17:31.634 --> 17:32.467 - Okay. 17:33.169 --> 17:36.014 We have room for a few follow up questions. 17:36.014 --> 17:37.431 Anybody have one? 17:38.713 --> 17:42.382 Okay, if not, we'd like to thank our survivors 17:42.382 --> 17:46.192 of Pearl Harbor for being here and being candid 17:46.192 --> 17:49.184 during this discussion and we all wish you well. 17:49.184 --> 17:50.317 Thank you very much. 17:50.317 --> 17:53.089 - I'd like to make one more solid statement, if I may. 17:53.089 --> 17:53.922 - Okay. 17:54.462 --> 17:56.124 - I'm not only a Pearl Harbor survivor. 17:56.124 --> 17:58.457 I was in the second aircraft 17:59.349 --> 18:02.846 that spotted the Japanese fleet coming up to Midway. 18:02.846 --> 18:05.628 I then went to Guadalcanal for the 48th mission 18:05.628 --> 18:08.257 to Guadalcanal and Sullivan Islands. 18:08.257 --> 18:11.301 Transferred to San Diego, went through training 18:11.301 --> 18:15.468 in the B-24 Liberator, went to Devonshire, England 18:15.755 --> 18:19.511 for the 56th mission for anti-submarine patrol 18:19.511 --> 18:21.314 over the English Channel. 18:21.314 --> 18:23.167 Sunk one submarine at Midway, 18:23.167 --> 18:24.932 sunk one in the English Channel. 18:24.932 --> 18:25.765 Thank you. 18:26.008 --> 18:27.878 (laughing) 18:27.878 --> 18:29.667 - Thank you. - Thank you very much. 18:29.667 --> 18:31.680 (audience applauding) 18:31.680 --> 18:32.988 - [Woman] Thank you so much for you service. 18:32.988 --> 18:37.155 It makes me really honor you because I have the freedoms 18:37.283 --> 18:41.450 that I have because of the work and the dedication you did 18:41.877 --> 18:43.690 for this country-- - Thank you, ma'am. 18:43.690 --> 18:46.474 - [Woman] And I'm greatly indebted to your bravery. 18:46.474 --> 18:48.391 - I'm a public speaker. 18:48.677 --> 18:50.775 I speak at schools, clubs, colleges, 18:50.775 --> 18:52.746 anyone that will listen to me there. 18:52.746 --> 18:56.071 Especially the kids, the kids are learning very little 18:56.071 --> 18:58.149 in the history books about anymore. 18:58.149 --> 19:00.150 Some of them don't even know when the war was, 19:00.150 --> 19:02.076 some of them don't know who we're fighting there. 19:02.076 --> 19:04.606 So I try to give them a little history lesson 19:04.606 --> 19:07.138 and the kids are paying attention and that's a good. 19:07.138 --> 19:09.956 If the kids are paying attention instead of sleeping 19:09.956 --> 19:11.426 or looking out the window there, 19:11.426 --> 19:13.415 that means I'm getting it across a little bit. 19:13.415 --> 19:15.158 I'm proud that I can talk to the kids 19:15.158 --> 19:17.076 and give them a little history lesson, thank you. 19:17.076 --> 19:18.568 - Okay, we have to cut it. 19:18.568 --> 19:21.568 I have National Park Service Rangers 19:22.417 --> 19:24.773 that are over here and it's time to end. 19:24.773 --> 19:27.018 They have a commitment, these survivors. 19:27.018 --> 19:27.851 Thank you. 19:28.175 --> 19:29.425 - Edward Stone. 19:29.910 --> 19:31.024 - [Interviewer] Stone, okay. 19:31.024 --> 19:32.541 - Syracuse, New York. 19:32.541 --> 19:33.917 - [Interviewer] Can you just kind of tell me 19:33.917 --> 19:35.521 what it feels like to be here? 19:35.521 --> 19:39.688 - Well, I've been here, I guess, this is my 12th time 19:39.959 --> 19:44.126 and to see some of my old buddies that I've been with before 19:45.776 --> 19:47.443 and it's just great. 19:48.623 --> 19:50.706 I brought my youngest son 19:50.826 --> 19:53.993 and daughter in law with me this time. 19:54.214 --> 19:56.253 They've never been to Hawaii. 19:56.253 --> 19:59.754 I want to make it a good vacation for them. 19:59.754 --> 20:00.982 - [Interviewer] I'll bet. 20:00.982 --> 20:03.530 So, how's it feel kind of connecting 20:03.530 --> 20:06.117 with all your old friends every year? 20:06.117 --> 20:08.439 - What do you mean, how does it feel? 20:08.439 --> 20:10.018 - [Interviewer] Just like, how does it make you feel? 20:10.018 --> 20:11.449 Just coming here and seeing all the people and everything. 20:11.449 --> 20:12.667 - Yeah, well, it's great. 20:12.667 --> 20:14.933 I can say, there's Timmy Davis there, 20:14.933 --> 20:16.848 getting hugged by that gal. 20:16.848 --> 20:21.015 He's the President of the Greatest Generation Foundation 20:21.028 --> 20:24.028 that took me twice here for the 70th 20:24.658 --> 20:27.825 and the 73rd anniversary and, hey Tim! 20:31.617 --> 20:34.655 We'll see you tomorrow night at the banquet. 20:34.655 --> 20:35.732 - We'll see you, yeah. 20:35.732 --> 20:36.565 Alright. 20:36.565 --> 20:38.030 - Good to see you again. 20:38.030 --> 20:39.185 - You too, man. 20:39.185 --> 20:40.190 I've got something for you on the bus. 20:40.190 --> 20:41.023 - Okay. 20:41.353 --> 20:44.388 Yeah, we'll be honorary Grand Marshals again 20:44.388 --> 20:47.221 in the huge parade through Waikiki 20:48.790 --> 20:52.291 and he brought quite a number of Pearl Harbor survivors. 20:52.291 --> 20:55.874 It'll be the last trip that they're making. 20:55.935 --> 21:00.048 I'm talking about the Greatest Generation Foundation. 21:00.048 --> 21:02.965 They've got it paid for everything. 21:03.329 --> 21:06.746 Transportation, hotel, food, you name it. 21:07.869 --> 21:11.313 But it's kind of a working vacation, though, 21:11.313 --> 21:13.875 because we visited all the military operations, 21:13.875 --> 21:16.708 had memorials at a number of them. 21:16.977 --> 21:20.538 Went to three schools and talked with the kids, 21:20.538 --> 21:22.955 you know, students in school. 21:23.175 --> 21:26.508 So, it's a wonderful feeling to be back. 21:27.529 --> 21:31.446 Thank God at my age, I'm 93, I can still do it. 21:31.769 --> 21:35.102 I still give talks to schools and things 21:35.694 --> 21:38.777 and the kids just, they're wonderful. 21:39.141 --> 21:41.391 (mumbling) 21:42.466 --> 21:43.799 - Appreciate it. 21:56.959 --> 22:01.126 (camera clicking) (laughing) 22:05.474 --> 22:07.724 (mumbling)