Barney Ross

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves. ↗

— Barney Ross

#graduate #had #morning #reserves #ship

Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small. ↗

— Barney Ross

#destroyers #did #small #too #were

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships. ↗

— Barney Ross

#burning #everything #fires #harbor #ships

I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years. ↗

— Barney Ross

#enough #family #four #had #i

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war. ↗

— Barney Ross

#before #four #harbor #i #months

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up. ↗

— Barney Ross

#blue #buoy #deck #destroyer #i

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun. ↗

— Barney Ross

#bag #get #gun #hoist #i

It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured. ↗

— Barney Ross

#injured #killed #lucky #me #nine

The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something. ↗

— Barney Ross

#breaking #came #cigarette #everything #fear

They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact. ↗

— Barney Ross

#coming #get #got #her #intact