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The Attack On Pearl Harbor-Greta Keranen

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The Attack on Pearl Harbor - Greta Keranen The start of the morning was normal, but at 7:53 AM everything changed. I heard airplanes outside and children down the hall screaming. I ran to the window and saw smoke billowing out of other buildings. Right then, I needed to decide if I was going to save the life of my own or the life of the patients. At Christmas dinner I was deciding if I should take a job option of being stationed at Pearl Harbor hospital for one year. I choose to take the job. That was when my father reminded me to expect the unexpected. I walked across the stained floor of the hospital to a patient’s room. The door creaked as I opened it. The walls inside the room were aged from the use the building had before. The windows
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