From the December 7, 2016, Northwest Herald (McHenry County, Illinois) by Stephanie Markham.
95-year-old served in Army Air Force.
Burton Miller was on his way to eat breakfast when the first bombs started falling. He was 19 that Dec. 7, 1941, and he and his 17-year-old brother, Wayne, were stationed at Wheeler Field in Hawaii -- one of the first places the Japanese attacked.
It was a bright Sunday morning and he broke his usual routine and got up for breakfast. Meanwhile, brother Wayne was taking a shower in the barracks.
"I got up and went for breakfast for the first time, and I got through the breakfast door, and a bomb comes down right next to me. And it hits the lawn, and it didn't hit the street, so I started running because they said that [the Japanese] were going to land troops there."
He has lived in Sycamore for the past four years with his wife, Bernice, also 95. His brother Wayne died in 2001 at age 88.
--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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