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My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

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Sigourney Weaver
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 8
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