"Donnie Novak and Jack Sterling have known each other forever. Growing up together in a small Midwestern town, they were best friends. After high school, they both enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the same time, and somehow were assigned to the same company before being stationed on the U.S.S. Oklahoma together.
One night on leave, Donnie crosses an almost imperceptible line between friendship and something more. A stolen kiss threatens to ruin what Donnie and Jack have built up together all these years, and the next morning, he can't apologize enough.
But a squadron of Japanese bombers has their sights trained on Pearl Harbor's Battleship Row, and in the early hours of December 7, 1941, Donnie might not get a chance to set things right."
No Apologies By J.M. Snyder Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 6 December 1941 It’s hard to imagine it’s the end of the year already, especially here, with the palm trees rustling in a balmy breeze, the sparkling ocean, the sandy beach. This is a tropical paradise, and the December I grew up with in the Midwest—short, dark days full of snow and ice, Santa Claus, Christmas trees, cold mornings and freezing nights, bulky coats, ski caps—that December is a million miles away, just like the rest of the world. I keep having to remind myself I’m here on duty, I’m supposed to be here, but it’s hard on nights like these when I’m in Honolulu and the air is still and warm and smells of heady hibiscus blossoms. Here in this tiny bar every man’s a sailor, the “undress-white” uniforms with blue neckerchiefs and