Personal Life
Daniel was married to Lucille, and together they were raising their 2 children (Danelle and Donald) in the military housing at Kaneohe Bay Naval Air Station. During the attacks on December 7th, Lucille placed her infant son Donald in a storage area just inside the house, where she hoped he would be safe. She ran to retrieve her daughter Danelle who was playing outside. Lucille watched in terror as Daniel’s plane taxied down the bay and turned to head into the wind. Moments later, she saw smoke and fire everywhere. A bomb had hit near the Griffin house and when she retrieved little Donald from storage, he had a small amount of blood coming from his ears as a result of the concussion caused by the bomb hitting so close to his shelter. He also sustained damage to his optic nerve, which required 3 eye surgeries in Donald’s childhood. Following Daniel's burial, Lucille and the children moved back to the mainland.
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