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I was driving back from an all star football game that three of our NC State players had been in,

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and we got right to the edge of Raleigh and I just turned on the car radio and heard that

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and it was just such a shock. Nobody was ready for anything like that.

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I was then courting Mrs. Friday

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and I of course called her the minute I could and said I'll come sit and talk with you.

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But it changed everything because

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you didn't want to admit but it was true that that attack literally destroyed the Pacific fleet

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and we knew it was a straight uphill fight.

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But it did dramatize NC State's importance,

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you see, it turned it around, and boy it got right into the war effort up to its neck.

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But war changes everything. It changes your life, the institution,

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and when we came back after, those of us fortunate enough to survive, we came back to a different world, a different NC State.

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It's been my privilege to have been associated with that institution all those years.