Oral History Interview with John Lowe, Jr., August 7, 1978 Page: 27
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Lowe:That is very correct.
In other words, you really were not cognizant of the destruct-
ion that was being done in the harbor, and you probably
weren't even that cognizant of the other casualties that
were coming in then.
Oh, I was aware of other people coming in, because they were
bringing them in left and right.
Did this make you feel any better because some of those men
may have been hurt more than you?
No! No! I felt fortunate that I got out as light as I did
after I saw how some of the other boys were wounded.
What happened that night?
Well, when the attack was over, they loaded some of the fellows
that were off of these ships that were tied in around Ford
Island there in motor whaleboats and carried us across the
harbor to the Pearl Harbor hospital, and that's where they
put me--in the Pearl Harbor hospital along with all the rest
of those fellows. We had a packed hospital. And that night
we thought that the Japs had come back over again.
What made you think that?
Every kind of gun that you could think of went off, and all
of this shrapnel and stuff started falling on the hospital,
and we thought we were under attack again and that the Japs
were going to invade us. By being in the hospital flat on
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Lowe, John, Jr. Oral History Interview with John Lowe, Jr., August 7, 1978, text, August 7, 1978; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529186/m1/29/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=180: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.