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PEARL HARBOR, Page 44REMEMBRANCE"Things That Weren't There"
By DANIEL AKAKA
[A first-term Democratic Senator from Hawaii who served
seven terms in the House, he was a 17-year-old student at a
Reserve Officers Training Corps high school in Honolulu.]
The planes carried huge round sun figures on them and had
red balls on their wings. I put on the radio and discovered we
were being attacked by Japan. No one knew what to do. We were
students and didn't realize the gravity of what we were seeing.
We saw a huge billow of smoke rising from Pearl Harbor and later
found out that it was the Arizona. It burned for hours.
That afternoon, the students were sent to search the
mountains for Japanese paratroopers.
Our mission was to detect and hold the Japanese soldiers
at bay. Being so young, we were really frightened to be
standing guard all alone, all night long, on a dark, lonely
hillside. I spent a lot of time thinking about who could be out
there in the night. I was so scared that I often heard and saw
things that weren't there.