- [Joseph] That's me and that's my beautiful wife.

- [Ron] That's your beautiful wife, there you are.

You're a little heaver here.

- 195 pounds.

- Ooh you were more than 195 pounds there.

- I was at fighting weight.

- [Ron] Totally 200 and something here.

- [Joseph] No.

- Look at that, see talk about me.

- I was a tough sergeant.

- Yeah I know.

(gentle classical music) - [Joseph] I was an army drill sergeant.

I didn't tell of a lot of things that went on.

- [Ron] So when we were growing up how come you never talked about Pearl Harbor?

- Too busy working.

- That you were (murmurs).

- Building homes.

- At that time you didn't think this was a big deal, did you?

- No.

(gentle music) - [Roberta] I remember being a little girl and sneaking in the top drawer and all his little medals were in there.

And I remember seeing his uniform hanging up towards the back.

- Growing up he just never talked about the war at all.

I mean all the entire Ellwood City was in the army.

(gentle music) That's what everybody thought, it was their duty to go.

And they did and when they came back they figured that was it, they did their job.

And they really didn't talk about it.

(plane whirring) (intense music) (plane humming) - [Joseph] Sunday was just had routine, go to the direct call, the shoot pool and played cards and different things like that.

At first we thought that there was maneuvers.

But we didn't know we were gonna be attacked, nobody knew.

(plane whirring) We heard the planes coming.

There was about 300 of them, come over Diamond Head.

They come so close you see their face, you can see their face.

(planes whirring) That's where I caved in my chest.

It affected my hearing, everything now, because I got hit there.

(intense music) There weren't any attacks at that time.

You could hear the screaming, I mean it just terrible.

This buddy of mine where he got shot up pretty bad in his legs and I had to use the front my pistol to tie down on his leg.

What went through my mind, I said, "I'm never gonna see anybody home no more."

(somber music) I thought I was a goner.

(somber music) My buddies, it was on the Arizona, they were my buddies the ones that were on there.

- [Roberta] Maybe a couple of years ago, he goes, "I never said this to anyone, but when it thunders and lightnings, the thunder reminds me of the bombs."

- Oh for a while, wake up you think somebody's coming through the door at night.

This is just one company, yeah 21st infantry.

I get calls from all over.

All over the world I get calls.

- [Ron] I think it's something so important in their life, that they put aside all these years and now, it's their memory.

- [Roberta] Nobody's gonna be left pretty soon.

So its a part of history that he's a part of.

- Would I do it all over again?

(laughing) (gentle classical music) I wish I could've done more.

(gentle classical music)