Tag Archives: Pearl Harbor
![A photo of Bob McKenney (left), Richard Schimmel (center bottom), and two other Pearl Harbor survivors hangs in Schimmel's home office. DoD photo by Katie Lange](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161121175753im_/http://www.dodlive.mil/files/2016/11/Schimmel-and-friends-183x108.jpg)
Richard Schimmel, 19, was one of the first to know the Japanese were coming on Dec. 7, 1941. Here’s his story on how his co-worker’s warning was ignored.
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![USS Iwo Jima sails past the Statue of Liberty as it enters New York Harbor prior to Veterans Week NYC 2016, which honors the service of all our nation’s veterans. #USNavy #NYC #VeteransDay #NeverForget Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Carla Giglio](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161121175753im_/http://www.dodlive.mil/files/2016/11/Liberty-183x108.jpg)
From the military services and around the DoD, here’s your Daily SITREP for Monday, Nov. 14, 2016.
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![Navy veteran Melvin Heckman. Photo courtesy of the Heckman family](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161121175753im_/http://www.dodlive.mil/files/2016/11/Melvin-Heckman-rotator-183x108.jpg)
As we near the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks, some survivors from that day share their stories. Here’s Melvin Heckman’s.
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9/11 is a date that will forever be etched in American history as a day our entire society was irrevocably changed. For better or worse, we’ll never be the same.
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![Photo: Navy Cmdr. George Borovina strokes through a 50m backstroke at Joint Base Pearl Harbor’s Scott Pool during a practice session in Pearl Harbor on Jan. 6, 2014 for the scheduled Wounded Warrior Pacific Invitation (WWPI) in Honolulu. WWPI is a competition among seriously wounded, ill and wounded service members from the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Navy and Special Operations Command. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Kenneth R. Hendrix/Released)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161121175753im_/http://www.dodlive.mil/files/2014/01/1147703rotator-183x108.jpg)
Navy Cmdr. George Borovina strokes through a 50m backstroke at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam’s Scott Pool during a practice session in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Jan. 6, 2014.
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