Armando “Chick” Galella was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and later worked to honor the military personnel who died there.Galella was 19 years old when he joined the Army in 1940.
He later told the story of the day when he enlisted, when he initially weighed two pounds under the Army’s weight requirement.
He stepped away, ate two bananas and drank some water, and came back to meet the minimum weight. Stationed at Pearl Harbor, he remembered having just finished breakfast when he heard the attack begin.
Though Galella survived – living out of a volcanic crater for two weeks after the bombardment – his best friend from home, John Horan, didn’t.
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