A retired Lieutenant Colonel who played an infamous role in the attack on Pearl Harbor is back in Hawaii, sharing his story.
65 years ago, Kermit Tyler said "don't worry about it" after being told about radar images that turned out to be Japanese airplanes.
"It's been kind of a load on my entire life. It's always there something i think about," says Lt. Kermit Tyler, Pearl Harbor survivor.
Now 93, Kermit Tyler has lived 65 years with the weight of the surprise attack on pearl harbor on his shoulders.
December 7th, 1941, Lieutenant Tyler's second day on the job.
He famously uttered "don't worry about it" after radar operators picked up something near Oahu.
Tyler wrote it off as American planes expected home.
40 minutes later, pearl harbor was under attack.
"I was devastated."
"I ask him if he's haunted by it and he feels pretty well at rest with it, but those earlier years where his family was affected by the event was more difficult for him," says Daniel Martinez, National Park Service historian.
George Mcdonald's father Joseph, a private manning the information center at Fort Shafter at the time, warned of the incoming planes.
"I think it was everyday of his life he thought about that morning. He always thought what was it that I could have done differently that would have made a difference. He was haunted by it," says George McDonald, Private's son.
What if they had reacted differently, would the outcome have been different?
The course of history, changed, by a single event that catapulted America into war.