Kyle Magin
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December 7, 2010
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Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: Sailor looks back on 'date of infamy'

Seven Japanese torpedoes hammered the port side of the USS West Virginia as it sat in port at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941.Grass Valley's William "Bill" Dobbins, then a seaman aboard the Colorado-class battleship, was getting ready to go to church on shore that Sunday.Now 90, Dobbins, reaches across a small blue counter in his kitchen for a tissue as he recalls events of that day 69 years ago. His eyes squeeze shut and his pitch rises, describing the first time he watched a ship sink."When you watch a ship go down, every sailor gets a tear, because …

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