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The Day We Awoke40th Anniversary Of Pearl HarborBy Art CalleaForty year*A long time. A lime ui which the world has turned inside out. hat progressed fsrter ihan it did In centuries be lor* An unfathomable him. a lima lh* young man can't quite understand Dec. 7. 1941. Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. The first time in 160 years that American soil had been inpregnated by oaemv bombs. The first time anyone dared acroae the ocean and ao shockingly assault the United Stales The lime that awakened the sleeping giant and sent a full force into battleMuch hat happened in those «0 years. An atomic bomb has been detonated, destroying two Japanese cities and opening a new, tragic chapter in war-making Half the world ia dominated by Communism or Tacism. Amarica lost Ms first war In the jungles of Southeast Asia.Bui the young man really can't appreciate all that. Not until ha aua ia Paul Tienan'. kMthen and see. the horror of 40 years past. The horror and amptineas of knowing your youngeet brother sank hopeleasly withm the U.S.S. Oklahoma in the Pacific Ocean's placid blue waters near Hawaiih comas clear when Tien so pulls out a ceramic donkey reaurrected from the Oklahoma It belonged to William H Kennedy, half-brother of Tienan and aon of William and Eluabeth KennedyWilly Kennedy's been labeled missing in action by the U.S Government for the past 40 years. Many of tha 393 bodies aboard the Oklahoma couldn't be identified after they were dredged up in 1943 Bui the ceramic donkey told more than any dog lags.It had been gi.en to Willy by brothera Paul and Homsr on hia lart furlough in July. 1941. it was a joke. Wa stuck M in hi. suMcas*)usl before he left. Tienan said Ha was 24 on Dec 7.1941. The same age as tha young man silling at the kitchen table in 1961. The feeling becomes clearer.Missing In Action That's all he U ever be listedWiUlam Kraaedy . . . down with tha Oklahomabase, and he was a good student, yeah. Paul reminiscedHe was a fine looking young man. said Paul's
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