More than eight decades after Dec. 7, 1941, Chandler, a great-great-grandfather, still had the events of that famous day etched in his memory. Navy medic Chandler, who was fulfilling his childhood dream of wearing a U.S. sailor’s uniform in Hawaii, had raised the U.S. flag at a spot a little north of the harbor, ‘Aiea Heights, when planes flew overhead that he thought were American aircrafts from the mainland. Then the bombs began to fall.