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Pearl Harbor Day memories live on at National World War II Museum in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, LA (REUTERS).- Robert Templet was walking to breakfast on that Sunday, December 7, when he heard a plane motor surging at his back. He turned and saw the pilot, his goggles atop his head, smiling down at him before a torpedo fell from the plane’s belly. “It happened so fast, we didn’t know what was going on,” Templet told Reuters. Stories like Templet’s are being documented in “Infamy: December 1941,” an exhibit opening on Wednesday, the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Even though 70 years have passed since the attack killed nearly 2,400 American service men and women, the memories are still very much alive for veterans of that