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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.

I grew up in a Navy family.

After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved that life.

After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

When I became a soldier, I was drafted in 1937, and instead of being released two years later, I had to stay on because the war had started in the meantime. I was a soldier for more than eight years, as long a time as I was Chancellor.