Ford Island is a very special place, and is reflected on often by those who have lived there. When we first moved to Ford Island in the 1960s, there was still so much wreckage left from the Attack in 1941: sand bags next to rounds of shell ordinance next to at least 15 tanks parked next to approximately 30 lorries. All this equipment was parked in the field something like five yards from the BEQ (north of the Ford Island Ferry Landing and "the swamp" where dependents caught launch boats to go to school, etc., in the years before the Attack). This armory extended northward in the field along the perimeter road in front of the corrugated base Chapel, which was in front of enlisted apartments close to where the Arizona moored. The "John Wayne House" was filmed in one of the CPO houses for the movie "In Harm's Way" which was released in 1959. There was a humongous cannon that looked like a 914 mm "Little David," and two smaller cannons from WWI parked in the field across from the Officer's Pool at Nob Hill. This was consistent with what history tells us about the weapons, ships, ordinance, etc.,having been grouped so closely together just days before the Attack. There was a huge Army Battalion camped out behind our homes (just a few feet in back of our houses where we used to wait for the Hawaiian Bus Driver to make stops on the gray Navy Shuttle Bus). All these men were slaughtered the day of the Attack - bloodied white tents askew. The bodies sat for a l9ng time before they were dealt with. 3-inch flying Hawaiian cockroaches and mosquitos took control. It took years to subdue the problem. There was a sea of Army and Marine Corps barracks of the semi-rounded corrugated-tin type as far as the eye could see from the field across from Nob Hill Pool that extended South beyond the Runway Tower. A scene in the movie "Tora Tora Tora" was filmed In front of the Enlisted Apartments close to where the Arizona was moored - but The Navy demolished those. They also demolished Quarters 105. There were two other homes between Quarters 105 and the "new BOQ"/Navy Travel Lodge which were gone before we moved to Ford Island in the 1960s and on the opposite side of the lane where the Bomb Shelter is located were four other homes which were also gone before we moved there. I don't know if that was due to the Attack or to something else. There is or was an electrical station in a cinder block building that had an overgrowth of vegetation around it on the south side of the golf course. Feet away had been four one bedroom homes which were destroyed on December 7. The rubble of those homes was overtaken with thick vegetation. There was a church across from the movie theatre with a New England style steeple which was destroyed during the Attack. The Army had a two story building at the top of the circular driveway next to the gigantic monkey-pod tree in back of our houses at Luke Field - near the bomb shelter. The Army building was destroyed during the Attack. The circular driveway was directly in back of Quarters 107. Eventually the Navy put a swing set by the Monkey Pod Tree that I loved so much when we lived there - minus the Army building and anything left from the Army Batallion that camped there. In the years that have passed I have met people who were there on December 7, 1941. One veteran said he was stationed there shortly before the attack and was stationed on Ford Island three years. Everyone in spite of rank had to participate in physically cleaning up the mess. It was a 24 hour "round the clock" operation and they had to do their jobs working their time shifts in addition to helping with the Clean up of Ford Island and Pearl Harbor and sleep was an issue. He was a very angry man for all that he saw including what he thought was a black glove on top of a gray metal filing cabinet one year after the attack. The pool at Nob Hill had twisted and mangled corrugated awning with bullet holes in it that was over the shaded picnic area, and also over the life guard shack. There was a green munitions storage locker in the parking lot of the pool and Upper Lanai that had a sod roof with grass on it. The roof was A-shaped. The munitions locker was used as the package liquor store - a term that cane from Prohibition. My friends and I enjoyed sliding down the side of the roof on cardboard boxes before trapping through the Lower Lanai to go throughout the Upper Lanai to the pool. There eas?a large stage at the Upper Lanai which was just feet from the pool gate. They filmed a scene from the movie in Harm's Way between the Upper Lanai and the pool. The ladies room there barely functioned. It was very sad. There were gorgeous victorian style chairs in the ladies room but there had been damage from the Attack. The mirrors were not useable and it smelled. I was told by people that there are at least five mass graves on Ford Island - one by the road in back of the Bomb Shelter near the "new " BOQ which was built in 1936 - not the lane that runs in back of the houses on Luke Field. The other mass graves are closer to The runway on all sides. The old BOQ was a grand building built in the 1800s and finished in the early 1900s. It had gorgeous fragrant wood, wooden louvres, stations to tie up horses and a stable. I love the way our homes were decorated at Luke Field. We had a dumb waiter in our home since the homes originally predated electricity. The idea was to cook the food on the patio and transport it to the kitchen from the patio using the dumb waiter. There were French double doors separating the den/living room/dining room. We had white ceiling beams and clever white wooden ceiling borders. Most homes on Luke Field had fireplaces. I remember Quarters 118 and 114 had hearth fireplaces. I was told when we lived there that our home was built in 1919. The last homes on Nob Hill predating the 1990s were finished in 1936. My best friend lived in a home on Nob Hill that was the cinder block type. My thought is that her home was heavily damaged during the Attack on Ford Island and was rebuilt with Cinder block. She reported seeing a naked man and women on her bed "doing things"a number of times that were seriously horrifying and annoying to her and the haunting scared this poor little girl. The woman had a poopy curl hair style from that era. They must have been performing their marital duties during the Attack. She wailed about it some mornings on the way to school.