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 Post subject: Two neighbors, both Pearl Harbor survivors, are decades-old
PostPosted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 11:14 am 
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Two neighbors, both Pearl Harbor survivors, are decades-old friends
Los Angeles Times, by Corina Knoll

Paul Perrault and Anthony 'George' Mark, unaware of each other, survived the Japanese attack. Twenty years later, they found themselves neighbors on a Monrovia cul-de-sac. A bond formed between two men who never considered themselves heroes.

They were barely men at the time, unaware of each other but baptized by the same fire.

Paul Perrault was 21, a naval officer aboard the light cruiser Phoenix, anchored in Pearl Harbor's East Loch. He had just risen from his bunk when cannon-like blasts tore through the morning calm. Scrambling to his post in the gunnery, he saw a sky speckled with Japanese planes.

Across the harbor on Ford Island was Seaman 2nd Class Anthony "George" Mark, 18, who narrowly escaped as a plane strafed his area and bombs plunged into nearby hangars.

Twenty years later, two fathers met on a Monrovia cul-de-sac. One lived in a tan-colored home with his wife and two children. The other was moving his family of five into the house next door. After a month of small talk, the men learned of their shared past.

Chance had saved their lives. Chance made them neighbors.

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A bond formed naturally between two men who shied from recognition.

"I wasn't impressed that George was at Pearl Harbor and George wasn't impressed that I was," Perrault said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... full.story

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