ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Over the years, WDBJ7 interviewed many of the Pearl Harbor survivors who lived in western Virginia.

On the 84th anniversary of the Japanese attack that took more than 2,300 lives, we’re calling on them again to tell the story of that tragic and historic day.

“We were young, but that one day we grew up,” Elsie Horsley told WDBJ7 in 2001.

Horsley was ten years old, living in Honolulu. She was playing outside when the first planes arrived.

“We seen airplanes going around, and we all looked up and said hey there are planes, you know,” Horsley said.

“We were having breakfast,” Paul Suter said in 2006. “We were planning on putting a convoy together to go to the beach. We were going to have a good time that day.”

“Two or three of us were standing around after breakfast

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