WEBVTT 00:02.750 --> 00:06.070 I'm Doc Munger and I was 23 at Pearl 00:06.079 --> 00:08.649 Harbor . I've been in the Navy about 00:08.659 --> 00:11.680 two years and a half . I was a medic . 00:11.689 --> 00:13.739 The old term for a medic was a 00:13.750 --> 00:17.430 pharmacist . Me , I don't think the 00:18.129 --> 00:20.870 word war ever entered my head . It 00:20.879 --> 00:23.729 never occurred to me and I don't think 00:23.739 --> 00:25.906 any of my buddies that they were going 00:25.906 --> 00:29.790 to fight a war on December 00:29.799 --> 00:33.639 7th , 1941 the world changed . 00:33.880 --> 00:36.680 It was a beautiful Hawaiian morning 00:36.950 --> 00:40.700 about eight o'clock . And suddenly we 00:40.709 --> 00:43.810 heard a buzzing across the mountains 00:44.919 --> 00:47.389 and it kept getting bigger and bigger 00:47.409 --> 00:50.299 and we thought , well , what they must 00:50.310 --> 00:53.310 be doing some kind of an exercise . We 00:53.319 --> 00:56.659 thought it was our own plans . But lo 00:56.669 --> 00:58.836 and behold , the planes got overhead . 00:58.836 --> 01:01.020 We looked at the winds and there was a 01:01.029 --> 01:04.069 rising sun but then we knew we were in 01:04.080 --> 01:07.830 trouble when I saw the first Japanese 01:07.839 --> 01:11.709 Zero plane peel off and drop a bomb 01:11.720 --> 01:15.459 down the stack of the Arizona . I knew 01:15.470 --> 01:19.360 it was for real from then on in , I 01:19.370 --> 01:20.370 didn't know war 01:25.870 --> 01:29.440 and they all hell brokers you can't 01:29.449 --> 01:32.319 convey to another person the 01:32.330 --> 01:36.309 situation as it really is . A mass 01:36.319 --> 01:39.360 bombing left . The air is full of 01:39.370 --> 01:42.309 shrapnel . It's full of smoke . 01:43.190 --> 01:46.500 Smell like burning gunpowder 01:46.709 --> 01:50.110 vibration . And you have to experience 01:50.120 --> 01:53.510 that , uh , ever know , but it's not 01:53.519 --> 01:56.980 good . They sure did a bang up job on 01:56.989 --> 01:59.620 our ships . I don't think they miss 01:59.949 --> 02:03.239 much of any of them . If you made it 02:03.250 --> 02:05.819 through the first hour in Pearl Harbor , 02:05.910 --> 02:08.539 you were home free . You had to be 02:08.550 --> 02:12.399 smart and lucky shortly after it got 02:12.410 --> 02:15.110 quiet in Pearl Harbor . And I knew the 02:15.119 --> 02:17.820 planes are , had left for a while . 02:19.279 --> 02:22.759 We started getting casualties by the 02:22.770 --> 02:25.809 truckload in our little medical unit 02:26.410 --> 02:29.119 and we were doing what we could and , 02:29.130 --> 02:31.860 uh , with what we had and , uh , I'll 02:31.869 --> 02:35.160 never forget . We had so many burns and 02:35.169 --> 02:38.529 they're very , very painful . A burn is 02:38.539 --> 02:40.889 the most painful . One of the wounds . 02:41.309 --> 02:44.820 When we run out of beds , we used the 02:44.830 --> 02:47.169 blankets and put them on the ground . 02:47.610 --> 02:49.949 And then we used to run out of blankets 02:49.960 --> 02:52.669 and we used our coats , our pea coats 02:52.679 --> 02:55.910 and put them on the ground and put the 02:55.919 --> 02:58.559 wounded on . Um , we were out of 02:58.570 --> 03:02.339 morphine and the doctor doctors turned 03:02.350 --> 03:04.572 to me and he said , well , they'll have 03:04.572 --> 03:06.794 to suffer . And now , and I said , no , 03:07.360 --> 03:09.527 I said , let's get some cold water and 03:09.527 --> 03:11.759 splash on the , on the wound . He said 03:11.770 --> 03:14.979 a good idea . And we did that and that , 03:14.990 --> 03:18.160 that gave him some comfort . And we had 03:18.169 --> 03:21.630 a job to do did the best we could . 03:21.949 --> 03:25.050 We got very , very little sleep for 19 03:25.059 --> 03:25.789 days . 03:29.309 --> 03:33.309 Look on the war as a history and you 03:33.320 --> 03:36.770 will see that everybody loses 03:37.399 --> 03:40.160 in the long run . And if there's any 03:40.169 --> 03:43.559 way to negotiate out of a war 03:43.820 --> 03:46.899 or for not having it do it 03:49.600 --> 03:52.600 like other things , the memory of Pearl 03:52.610 --> 03:56.190 Harbor will drift away like the civil 03:56.199 --> 03:59.770 war , like the Spanish American war , 04:00.100 --> 04:03.820 like the other wars and people will be 04:03.830 --> 04:07.710 faced with the new challenges and 04:07.720 --> 04:10.149 they'll forget about Pearl Harbor . 04:10.490 --> 04:13.229 There'll be peace of Pearl Harbor with 04:13.240 --> 04:16.820 me all my life . I , I'll never get rid 04:16.829 --> 04:17.320 of that .