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Show DAILY A2 HERALD Friday, December 7, 2007 PEARL HARBOR -- DEC 7. 1941 Anniversary draws interest in Chilian plight addition to the severe damage inflicted on the military. rt "It was scary," said Joan Martin Rodby, who had to Audrey McAvoy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS carried gas to the different. But the plight of civilians wto survived the attack has attracted more attention because of deepening interest in the home front during World War II. "Maybe the unsung heroes that we should remember and look at are the civilians that endured the attack on Pearl Harbor and the years after it," said Daniel Martinez, chief historian at the USS Arizona Memorial Civilian survivors who recall the attack include Hawaii's two U.S. senators, who both were boys at the carry a gas mask everywhere as a even as she commanded sat for her class courts under portrait in 1942. "It wa more or less living in constant fear martial law. Residents feared enemy troops would parachute they were always going to ' into the mountains and then comeback." swarm the beaches. Annual remembrances of This year's 66th anniversary the Dec. 7, 1941, attack often of the Japanese attack on Pearl evoke images of burning ships in Pearl Harbor and exploding Harbor offers reminders of how the assault upended the planes at Hickam Field. This lives of Hawaii's civilians, in year's observance will be no Children Military fifth-grad- e time. Sea Daniel Inouye, now 83, said he served as a first-ai- d volunteer, helping treat civilians who were wounded in his Honolulu neighborhood. In 1943, he joined a celebrated unit and was highly decorated for combat valor. Japanese planes did not bomb residential neighborhoods, but misfired U.S. antiaircraft shells fell on homes and businesses. "One shell fell into the dining room and this old Japanese lady was having her breakfast. When I got there she was slumped over in her food," Inouye said in an interview. "Shrapnel went through her head and killed her. She didn't know what hit her." n Inouye said about a storekeepers were killed when their shops were hit. The National Park Service, which runs the USS Arizona Memorial, lists 48 civilians who died from the attack, mostly in Honolulu. Three firefighters and four federal government GET a Lot. KMAiSMtDnMU) , tnjoy great time. When holiday music and help a child at the same you buy Dillard's country or contemporary lie 2i ib ! or 1 of Honolulu, Hawaii, . employees also perished. Military casualties far outnumbered civilians, with more than 2,300 dead and 1,100 iiikiiita PEMONIAssociated Press at the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Nov. a living in Wahiawa, Hawaii, across from the Schofield Barracks Army base when Japanese planes bombed Oahu on Dec. 7, 1941. garlands. The U.S. military lined Waikiki beaches with barbed wire, giving the island the look of paradise under "Maybe the unsung heroes that we should remember and look at are the civilians." Daniel Martinez USS Arizona Memorial historian half-doze- CD of Christmas music, your purchase benefits the Ronald McDonald House in your community. Just $7 each. Available at Dillard's stores, www.dillards.com LUCY Dick Rodby, 76, 29. Rodby was wounded. All the dead are to be remembered Friday in a ceremony at a Pearl Harbor pier overlooking the USS Arizona, which sank with more than 1,000 sailors aboard. In the months after the attack, the war crept into all aspects of civilian life. made camouflage nets instead of flower rs was a senior at a military academy when the raid happened. He and his classmates were ordered to guard the mountains behind their hillside campus after the attack. The U.S. military feared Japan would send paratroopers into the mountains and sabotage the island's water sources, so it asked the students to help. "We were ordered to take care of the hills," Akaka told , siege. A blackout order was imposed to make sure invading Japanese forces would not have any city lights to guide them in an attack. Neighborhood wardens made sure residents turned off lights and covered windows with black The Associated Press. cloth. Martial law was declared and 's husband, Dick, Rodby his family wanted to evacuate the afternoon of Dec. 7. Milfrom their home across from itary officers replaced civilian the Schofield Barracks Army judges, meaning even people base to a beach house on Oahu. caught speeding or committing But they were told not to beother traffic violations were cause Japanese forces might judged in military court. "We went from the Gibraltar storm the beaches. Hawaiian Sen. Daniel Akaka of the Pacific to this isolated outpost," Martinez said. "The islands of Hawaii were still at risk. As such, it was constant: 'When are they coming back? Will we be invaded, will we be occupied?'" The mood relaxed somewhat by . mid-194- after the U.S. military victory at the Battle of Midway, which dramatically reduced the chance Japan would attack Hawaii again. But martial law remained in effect until 1944. ' Martinez said there's been growing interest in the experience of civilians during the war, as shown by recent displays on martial law at the Hawaii state judiciary museum and the U.S. Army Museum in Waikiki. The park service plans to build a new USS Arizona Memorial visitors center in the coming years, and it will expand the civilian side of the ' story, j "It's ben. neglected," Marti: nezsaidt: Make it part of your He!,';.' 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