Veteran's History Project - Dean E. Starr

Dean E. Starr

Petty Officer 2nd Class

U.S. Navy

1950-1954

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in The Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Potter, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project. This article originally pubished on June 16, 2012.

Dean Starr was 11 when the Japanese attacked our Naval forces at Pearl Harbor. From the concern in his dad's voice, he knew something dreadful had happened. Things changed.

Dean's father began working on the construction end of war projects in Western Nebrask...