Barney Ross Quotes

Barney Ross Famous Quotes & Sayings

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I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.

It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.