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And as a teacher, organist, and choir director, she's also a World War II history buff.

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Up next, a story on the Bremerton Naval Yards in Washington.

Here's Anne to tell the story.

On October 30, 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a campaign speech in Boston, in which he said,

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again.

Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign war.

Of course, with hindsight, we know that didn't last more than a year because...

We interrupt this broadcast and bring to this important bulletin from the

United Press flash Washington the White House announces Japanese attack on Pearl

Harbor however you look at it this was a huge change a huge impactful event

in American history it had a profound impact on really everybody in the country, but in different

places it hit differently. One place that had a really interesting historical connection

with the whole Pearl Harbor attack and with the way World War II would change the U.S. is the town of

Bremerton in the state of Washington.

Now, Bremerton's not a big metropolis. In fact, it largely grew because of some Navy connections.

It's across Puget Sound from Seattle.

It's on the Kitsap Peninsula, which is a little peninsula sticking out from the larger Olympic Peninsula.

And since it's on Puget Sound, it does have access to the Pacific Ocean, which is why in 1891 it was picked to be the site for the Puget Sound Naval Station, which was the first naval establishment in the northwest.

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