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My father was on the USS Lexington which left #PearlHarbor the night before the attack. However, it was a secret mission so his family believed his ship had also been hit. (It was, in fact, later torpedoed in the Battle of the Coral Sea. My father and his fellow sailors bobbed around in shark-infested waters awaiting rescue. When I was a kid, my sisters and I couldn’t understand why he didn’t like swimming in the ocean. We called him “Chicken of the Sea”. Kids are assholes. ) #pearlharborday #WWII #history