My mother told me what she heard, saw, and felt =
near her=20
church in Kalihi* on December the Seventh. It was about an hour after =
sunrise in=20
1941. I don't know if she was riding in a car or walking home from her=20
Portuguese church on that morning. She was sixteen years old. But she =
heard, out=20
of place, out of time, and in the shine of the morning these noises, =
thick and=20
gray in their tenor - ka-boom ka-boom - but very muffled, coming out =
from over=20
ewa ('E-va'), or from a 'westerly direction,' far away. And my mom could =
__________ * 'ka-LEE-he,' a famous valley in Honolulu - 'The Edge or =
Boundary'=20
it can be translated maybe. Honolulu, by the way, means 'Bay of =
Shelter.'=20
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