At age 17, Earl J. “Chuck” Kohler got his parent’s permission to enlist in the Navy in April 1941. Only eight months later, as a young serviceman, he would become part of history as a fighter in the Pearl Harbor attack. Every day since, Kohler, now 102 and just one of 11 survivors left, has made it his life’s work to “honor” the fallen soldiers who didn’t make it home. “I try to share my experience with anybody who would come and listen,” Kohler told The Epoch Times in a recent interview.
“I thought that way they would have a better understanding of and a deeper appreciation for what those people experienced there that morning, but sadly didn’t live to share that information with their family or loved ones or friends. Somebody had to be a voice for them. And I had tried to do that down through the years.”
