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“ETERNAL FATHER, STRONG TO SAVE WHOSE ARM HATH BOUND THE RESTLESS WAVE WHO BIDS THE MIGHTY OCEAN DEEP ITS OWN APPOINTED LIMITS KEEP OH HEAR US WHEN WE CRY TO THEE FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA From the Navy Hymn”
― Bill McWilliams, Sunday in Hell: Pearl Harbor Minute by Minute

“From Major Leonard D. Heaton, physician and surgeon at Schofield Barracks’ Army Hospital. Writing in his diary the night of 7 December:   The best and happiest days of our lives went up in the smoke of Pearl Harbor, Wheeler Field, and Hickam Field today. I wonder if, when and how they will ever return.”
― Bill McWilliams, Sunday in Hell: Pearl Harbor Minute by Minute