‘I crossed my fingers’

Pearl Harbor survivor remembers when a nation was launched into war

By Robert Marchant
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As the nation remembers Pearl Harbor, and the U.S. entry into World War II, Floyd Welch has his own memories. An electrician’s mate on the USS Maryland docked at the Hawaiian naval base on Dec. 7, 1941, Welch was coming out of the shower when he...

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