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Jimmy Lee was born and raised on his family’s farm on Oahu, Hawaii in the 1930s. As a child, he witnessed the events of Pearl Harbor first hand while feeding the farm’s pigs. He lived through the period in which the island was placed under martial law. He was drafted into the military during the Korean War and served in Germany and later worked for the Army Corps of Engineers. In this interview, Lee recalls the bombing of Pearl Harbor, living in Chinatown as a teenager, racial attitudes toward Chinese and Japanese Americans, work and travel with the military, and the West Loch disaster.