From the Feb. 8, 2013, (Il.) Journal-Standard by Travis Moore.
Dean Garrett, 92, of Freeport, Illinois, died Sunday.
He was a young hospital corpsman at the base hospital that day and spent the next 72 hours helping the wounded and dying.
He was the former president of the Northern Illinois Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.
He lost his best friend and fellow corpsman John Mulick on the USS Oklahoma.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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