When it was all over, James Starnes felt tremendously elated. "I'd gotten through all of it-- I had a lot of friends who died-- and here it was over."
Even as happy as he was, he showed none of it, saying, "I was on duty. I wasn't in a position to jump up and celebrate. I had to write the log after the ceremony."
After the war, he went back to Emory University and went on to have a successful career in real estate and banking.
He went back to Pearl Harbor a decade ago to celebrate the 60th anniversary of V-J Day on the USS Missouri and last year published a short book, "Surrender: September 2, 1945." In it he chronicles his wartime experience.
--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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