By Chris Smith

HONOLULU — Alongside Pearl Harbor on Sunday, former Navy nurse Alice Darrow peered out to the watery spot where, amid the lethal chaos of the surprise attack 84 years earlier, a machine gun bullet struck a young sailor but didn’t kill him.

Instead, it sparked an epic wartime love story.

At age 106, Darrow, of Danville, is a remarkably vibrant and engaging member of America’s nearly depleted corps of World War II veterans. She came to Pearl Harbor as a VIP guest for the anniversary commemorations of Imperial Japan’s Dec. 7, 1941, aerial assault on U.S. ships, aircraft, installations and personnel on Oahu.

This was Darrow’s second visit in just 10 weeks to the National Park Service’s memorial and museum at Pearl Harbor. In September, she and her daughter and son-in-law, Da

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