'The water was on fire': 100-year-old Illinois native survived Pearl Harbor, one of few left

As bombs and bullets rained down like hellfire, he spent an eternity of hours diving into the flaming harbor to try to save fellow sailors. He lugged out body after body, some alive and others not.

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