A Real-Life Pearl Harbor Love Story
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🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
NPR special correspondent Renee Montagne tells the story of what her father witnessed on that day 80 years ago, and how a cinematic love story — put on pause by war — turned out for him.
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| 0:00.0 | Back in the spring of 2001, a movie was released that was expected to be the next tight-handed. |
| 0:14.0 | Pearl Harbor. |
| 0:19.0 | It was directed by Michael Bay, so in Michael Bay fashion, it had plenty of explosions. |
| 0:24.0 | The real focus of the movie was a love story. A love triangle, actually. A combat pilot, |
| 0:34.0 | played by Ben Affleck, is shot down over the English channel during a mission and is thought to be dead. |
| 0:42.0 | But then he returns to his base in Hawaii only to find the woman he left behind a nurse played by Kate Beckinsale is now with his childhood friend. |
| 0:49.0 | The following day is the Pearl Harbor attack and, well, it goes on from there. |
| 0:57.0 | It was a typical Hollywood romance meets war fantasy, but as it turns out, the plot wasn't that far-fetched. |
| 1:07.0 | Dear Mom, having quite a time in Honolulu, who would dance on the ship swimming at like a key beach? |
| 1:13.0 | That is the voice of a sailor who was there at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. |
| 1:22.0 | I could look out and see the Japanese planes, which were just airplanes to me, and I thought it was just a drill. |
| 1:31.0 | And there was a woman he left behind. |
| 1:34.0 | It was the first girl I'd ever met that I really was smitten with. |
| 1:38.0 | Consider this. It's been 80 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor. |
| 1:46.0 | We'll look back on that day through the eyes of a young sailor who lived through it and hear his love story, which almost sounds made for the movies. |
| 1:58.0 | From NPR, I'm Ari Shapiro. It's Tuesday, December 7. |
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