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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nolan Workman, post: 3068827, member: 87452&quot;]Thanks for the likes of my father&#039;s coin, like so many of his fellow Americans whose state&#039;s namesake battleships were attacked at Pearl Harbor, father joined the Navy in early &#039;42 to avenge the attack on the U.S.S. Oklahoma BB-37 on Dec. 7. 429 &quot;Okie&quot; sailors died and the ship never recovered. I joined the Navy in Dec. &#039;65 and was a Torpedoman&#039;s Mate serving aboard the U.S.S. Proteus AS-19, a Polaris submarine tender, ported in Apra Harbor, Guam, M.I. in 1966, when our ship&#039;s chaplain had two speakers one Sunday from the World Wide Christian Missionary Army Of Sky Pilots visit the ship&#039;s library. The library was standing room only. The first speaker was a squared jawed, no neck German fellow who was a Nazi bomber pilot shot down in Russia, rescued by locals and hidden from the Russian Army, saw the light and became a missionary in the South Pacific. He showed us an ornate dagger given him by Adolph when he was a young pilot. The other speaker was Mitsuo Fuchida, who organized and led the attack on Pearl Harbor, he fired the flare that started the attack and our entry into the war, sent the famous, Tora! Tora! Tora! message, figured out how to make the torpedoes run shallow in Pearl Harbor. He was a rock star back home and was wounded in the Battle of Midway and sent back to Japan as a Staff Officer. He missed the Hiroshima bomb by one day. After the bomb, he was ordered with a team to assess damage in Hiroshima and of the team, he was the only person to not die of radiation poisoning. War Crimes Tribunals came calling and he turned state&#039;s evidence on his co-conspirators and got a pass, in the process, found Jesus and went on a U.S. and world apology tour; which is why he was on my ship. All was going okay, until he wrapped up his talk with, &quot;I was like you, a soldier, only following orders.&quot; Now, I wasn&#039;t alive in the 1850&#039;s old west, but I found out what a lynch mob smelled like that day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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