 think that it is a blessing that so many of us are still around to celebrate the 70th year because right now there's only about 1,300 of us left and the 75th they won't be hardly any left so that's about you know the just glad to be able to celebrate hi album loss here being at Pearl Harbor remembering that dreadful morning of December 7th 1941 I am humbly honored and pleased to be here well I I'm so happy to be here with all these young people and I hope I am an inspiration for them about means to help protect and preserve a precious country we have and I have lived a wonderful life and I haven't feared death at when you join the service why death might be real short and of course when I joined the reserves when called active duty pretty quick and just it had to be the time that though the Japs Japanese bomb this and and I was here in Pearl Harbor and my this celebration they just touches my heart I just oh I hate to cry on camera but I feel like it but it's a great experience and I can't live too much longer I'm not worried about that I'm worried about tomorrow good Lord's well he's his people need a lot of help I turn as long as they kept me around I'll help him with his people they're not mine there is maybe I shouldn't talk like that but we all have to help each other this is a true story and that's what I like to do that's what I like to do