Aug 23, 2026
“It wasn’t hard. I just pulled the trigger and she worked fine.” — Doris Miller | Quote of the Day
Doris Miller was a mess attendant on the battleship USS West Virginia when Japanese planes struck Pearl Harbor. With no training on a machine gun, he helped carry his mortally wounded captain to safety, then opened fire on the attackers. When he described it later, he reduced a moment of extraordinary courage to a single, matter-of-fact sentence.