Chapter 12

CHAPTER 12 The next twenty-four hours rushed by in a blur of sirens and blood and moaning, shouting men. But Danny barely had time to think about any of it. He was too busy. After that first moment when he and Ma saw each other — Ma hugged Danny so tight she almost cracked his ribs, and he hugged her back even tighter — she put Danny to work in the hospital. Hundreds of Hickam men had been

接下来的二十四小时在警笛、鲜血、呻吟、叫喊的人们的模糊声中匆匆而过。 但丹尼几乎没有时间考虑这些。 他太忙了。在他和妈妈第一次见面之后——妈妈紧紧地抱着丹尼，几乎把他的肋骨都抱断了，丹尼抱得更紧了——她让丹尼去医院工作。 数百名希卡姆人被杀

wounded. They were the lucky ones. Dozens had died when a bomb destroyed the barracks while men were just waking up. Dozens more never made it out of the dining hall when a bomb set it on fire. Others had been hit on runways, in hangars, or while firing machine guns at the bombers. There were only two doctors and two nurses at Hickam. They needed every spare hand they could find. Danny helped soldiers and volunteers make beds and sweep glass off the floor. He rolled bandages and found extra blankets for men recovering from surgery. He watched Ma as she hurried from man to man, changing bandages, holding hands, never flinching. Mrs. Sudo was right — she was brave. A few times Danny managed to peep in on Mack. Ma said he'd been given a powerful drug to take away the pain. He'd lost almost half of his blood. But Ma said he'd survive. As bad as things were at Hickam, Danny knew they were even worse out on the harbor. All night reports trickled in: The battleship Arizona was

人受伤。他们是幸运的。 一枚炸弹摧毁了营房，当时人们刚刚醒来，数十人死亡。 一枚炸弹点燃了食堂，还有几十人没能从里面出来。 其他人则是在跑道上、机库中，或在向轰炸机发射机枪时被击中的。 希卡姆只有两名医生和两名护士。 他们需要尽可能多的人手。 丹尼帮助士兵和志愿者铺床，打扫地板上的玻璃。 他卷了绷带，并为手术后恢复的男性找到了额外的毯子。 他看着妈妈从一个男人跑到另一个男人，换绷带，牵着手，从不退缩。 须藤太太说得对，她很勇敢。 有几次丹尼成功地偷窥到了麦克。 马说，医生给了他一种强效药物来消除疼痛。 他几乎流了一半的血。 但是妈妈说他会活下来的。希卡姆的情况很糟糕，丹尼知道港口的情况更糟。 整晚都有消息传来:亚利桑那号战列舰

gone, along with more than a thousand men. The Oklahoma was capsized, and more than a hundred men were still trapped inside. The California was sinking. The destroyers Shaw and Cassin had exploded. Other ships were badly damaged. For most of the day, Pearl Harbor was a sea of fire. Even men who managed to escape the burning ships had little chance of survival. Hundreds of planes at different bases had been destroyed or badly damaged. Hospitals all over Oahu were overflowing with wounded men. Danny heard that his school had been turned into a hospital. Everyone expected another attack. There were whispers about a Japanese invasion of Hawaii. Danny tried not to think about this, about how easy it would be for the Japanese to take over the island with so many ships and planes wrecked. The hours ticked by with no more Japanese planes. But America was now at war. Danny knew it would be months or even years before the sound of a plane in the sky didn't make him jump. It wasn't until the next morning that Ma and Danny finally got to sit together. Ma slumped in

跟一千多人一起走了。 俄克拉荷马号倾覆了，一百多人仍被困在里面。 加利福尼亚号正在下沉。 “肖”号和“卡辛”号驱逐舰爆炸了。 其他船只严重受损。 在那一天的大部分时间里，珍珠港都是一片火海。 即使是设法逃离燃烧的船只的人也几乎没有生存的机会。 不同基地的数百架飞机被摧毁或严重损坏。 瓦胡岛的医院都挤满了伤员。 丹尼听说他的学校被改成了医院。 每个人都期待着又一次袭击。 有传言说日本要入侵夏威夷。 丹尼尽量不去想这件事，不去想日本人在这么多船只和飞机失事的情况下占领这个岛是多么容易。 时间一小时一小时地过去，没有更多的日本飞机。 但是美国现在处于战争状态。 丹尼知道，再过几个月甚至几年，他才不会被空中飞机的声音吓得跳起来。 直到第二天早上，妈妈和丹尼才终于坐在一起。 马瘫倒在地

her chair, more tired than Danny had ever seen her. Her white uniform was spattered with blood. But she listened closely as Danny told her the story of how he had been with Aki when he saw the first planes. Ma told him about the terrifying first minutes when the bombs started dropping on Hickam. "We'll remember this moment for the rest of our lives," Ma said. Then she let out a strange sigh. "To think, I got you out of New York because I wanted you in a safe place." She shook her head, and Danny could see she was fighting back tears. "I'm glad we're here." The words came out before Danny realized what he was saying. And Ma liked hearing them. She smiled a little. Just then, one of the doctors peeked his head in and said he needed Ma for surgery. "See you soon," she said to Danny as she headed out the door. "Don't go away, okay?" She was joking, Danny knew. Because where could he go from here?

她坐在椅子上，丹尼从未见过她如此疲惫。 她的白色制服上溅满了血。 但当丹尼向她讲述他和阿基一起看到第一架飞机的故事时，她仔细听着。 妈妈告诉他炸弹开始落在希卡姆的头几分钟是多么可怕。 “我们会永远记住这一刻，”马说。 然后她发出一声奇怪的叹息。 “想想看，我带你离开纽约是因为我想让你待在一个安全的地方。” 她摇了摇头，丹尼看得出她在强忍着泪水。 “我很高兴我们在这里。”这些话在丹尼意识到自己在说什么之前就说了出来。 妈妈喜欢听他们说话。 她微微一笑。就在这时，一个医生探进他的头，说他需要马做手术。 “再见，”她出门时对丹尼说。 “别走，好吗?”丹尼知道她是在开玩笑。 因为他还能去哪里呢?

But he thought with shame of his plan to leave on the Carmella. Would he really have gone? If those planes hadn't attacked today, would Danny be on that ship? He couldn't say. It seemed impossible that only twenty-four hours had passed since he first saw those planes. Because everything seemed completely different now. Not just the harbor, now in ruins. Not just America, now at war. But Danny too. Maybe yesterday morning he had been the kind of boy who would leave his ma. He would never know for sure. But he knew this: He wasn't that kind of boy anymore.

但他羞愧地想起了自己乘卡梅拉号离开的计划。 他真的会去吗? 如果今天那些飞机没有袭击，丹尼还会在那艘船上吗? 他说不出来。从他第一次看到那些飞机到现在才过了24小时，这似乎是不可能的。 因为现在一切似乎都完全不同了。 不仅是港口，现在已经成了废墟。 不仅是美国，现在也处于战争状态。 但是丹尼也是。也许昨天早上他还是那种会离开妈妈的男孩。 他永远不会知道确切的答案。 但他知道:他不再是那种男孩了。