Lee S. Manwill, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Luke Kelly, July 11, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 267

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Lee Manwill Jul 11 2001 whistle (demonstrating). And she walked about three steps past, stopp d put h r hand on her hips, looked over her shoulder, and says "Well if you can't howl don't b th r t even whistle." And we had fourteen good years together. And she died in 1958 of breast cancer. And a year later I married Marilyn. I had five children. The oldest one was ten. he had three children, and the oldest one was six. And her husband had died on his 26th birthday. They had this Asian flu come through and it took him. So we've had 41 years together. It's a good marriage. She says I talk too much. L UK: One of the questions I ask of all the veterans. Where were you when Pearl Harbor happened? Do you remember? LEE: Yes, very well. On December 71 \ 1941 I was stationed at Governor's Island, New York as a radio operator, and I was off duty. They ran a ferry boat every fifteen minutes over to South Ferry they called it. That's right where the big United Nations building is now, or close to it. And it was also right next to Chinatown which went off the other side of the island. And, so, I was getting ready to go to Manhattan. And I don't remember what I was going to do there. It was kind of late. It was 5:00 in the afternoon, I guess, something like that. I might have been going to take in a movie, which I shouldn't have been doing on Sunday. But, you know. Anyway, I got on the ferry boat to go to Manhattan, and the ferry boat had got about fifty or sixty feet out into the water and the guard on the shore blew his whistle. He called him back, motioned him. So the guide 26