Following an interview with a local television station at the site of the newly built USS Oklahoma Memorial on Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, survivor, Retired Senior Chief George A. Brown speaks with Eileen Martinez of the National Park Service about the 429 Sailors who perished during the Pearl Harbor attack aboard battleship USS Oklahoma (BB 37). The quotation at the top of the granite slab is from Brown, who was a ship�s cook, petty officer 3rd class serving on the battleship the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. He said he narrowly escaped through a hatch, which had been blown open following the last torpedo to hit the crippled ship.