HONOLULU ( KITV ) -- A remarkable World War II love story is now becoming part of Pearl Harbor history.

Alice Beck Darrow, a 106-year-old former Navy nurse, has donated the bullet that once threatened her future husband's life to the Pearl Harbor National Memorial.

During the attack on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, fire controlman Dean Darrow survived torpedoes, gunfire and burning waters before doctors later discovered a bullet lodged in his heart. Alice cared for him as surgeons removed it, and the two fell in love.

The couple eventually got married and raised four children. Surrounded by family and service members, Alice said it was finally time for the bullet to belong to the public.

"All these years I’ve been thinking I've gotta put that bullet in a museum because it isn't fair just to

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