--- title: "1 Family Years Quotes By Barney Ross" description: "1 Family Years quotes by Barney Ross. Plus more from Barney Ross and more Family Years sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d0/barney-ross-33166_been_i-had-been-out-there-long-enough-i-had-n_670374.png" --- > [I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/i-had-been-out-there-long-enough-i-had-not-seen-my-family-for-four/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d0/barney-ross-33166_been_i-had-been-out-there-long-enough-i-had-n_670374.png) ## More by Barney Ross > [We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/we-got-orders-to-strike-the-marshall-and-gilbert-islands-we-had-a/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) > [I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/i-was-20-years-old-at-pearl-harbor-i-was-in-the-navy-about-a-year-and/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) > [Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/everything-was-black-in-the-harbor-but-there-were-still-some-fires/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) > [We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/we-managed-to-get-underway-and-i-don-t-know-to-this-day-why-we-didn-t/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) > [Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/our-duty-was-to-try-and-find-the-japanese-fleet-we-never-did-find-the/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) > [I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/i-had-been-out-there-long-enough-i-had-not-seen-my-family-for-four/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) > [They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/they-got-word-that-the-japanese-planes-were-coming-back-so-we-sunk/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) > [The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/the-gunner-s-mate-came-up-and-started-breaking-the-locks-on-the/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) > [After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/after-the-atomic-bombs-were-dropped-the-war-ended-and-we-went-into/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) > [All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/all-we-had-aboard-the-ship-that-morning-was-one-annapolis-graduate/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) > [We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/we-were-very-fortunate-that-the-carriers-weren-t-in-the-harbor/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) > [Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/destroyers-did-not-have-chaplains-because-they-were-too-small/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) > [I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/i-d-get-a-shell-they-weighed-about-80-pounds-i-think-but-when-i-was/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) > [It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/it-was-lucky-for-me-it-wasn-t-lucky-for-the-nine-people-that-got/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) > [I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barney-ross/i-was-standing-on-the-deck-of-the-uss-blue-a-destroyer-we-were-all/) [Barney Ross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barney-ross/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/family-years/barney-ross/#itemlist", "name": "1 Family Years Quotes By Barney Ross", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I had been out there long enough. 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