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  • Nevertheless, such was his outrage, and devotion to those who had perished, that Joniec persisted in protesting.

    RutlandHerald.com 2009

  • Incensed, Joniec immediately began lobbying against what he perceived as a grievous insult and dispatched a telegram.

    RutlandHerald.com 2009

  • After enlisting in April, Joniec was sent to Fort Slocum, N.Y., then by troop train to San Francisco, where he boarded a ship for Hawaii.

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  • "Roosevelt called it a day that will live in infamy, and I have never forgotten it," says Joniec, sitting at his dining room table, in the same field uniform shirt he wore that day.

    RutlandHerald.com 2009

  • "I have no animosity toward the Japanese people," Joniec says.

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  • It began at a party in March 1941, when Joniec and neighborhood buddy Bill Matrasek impulsively decided to join the Army infantry.

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  • After the attack, Joniec remembers weeping civilians flocking to the base hospital, soldiers and officers racing back to the post in commandeered vehicles.

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  • Discharged from the Army in 1945, Joniec married Anne, the neighborhood girl who caught his eye at a church bazaar before the war.

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  • Joniec would later string barbed wire and plant dynamite to defend the beaches of Hawaii.

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  • Later, Joniec received a letter from the Navy acknowledging his concern.

    RutlandHerald.com 2009

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