StoryCorps
12:00 am
Wed December 7, 2011

"Mudhole" and the Marines: Kenneth Merrill Sr. and Vernon Lott

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Kenneth Merrill Sr. and Vernon Lott

Today is the 70th Anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Kenneth Merrill Sr., or Mudhole as his fellow marines call him, was a junior in high school then. In today's StoryCorps Northwest he talks with his nephew, Vernon Lott, about that day, and how he got his nickname.

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