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PEARL HARBOR, HI—Still haunted by the horrific images seared into his memory, an emotional Josh Hartnett returned to the scene of Pearl Harbor Tuesday, choking back tears as he revisited the site of one of the worst atrocities in American history.

Hartnett says he “never got over” the painful ordeal.

“I felt like I needed to come back here for closure,” Hartnett said. “For 10 years, I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night, panicked from the same nightmare in which I experience Pearl Harbor all over again.”

“Everyone knows Pearl Harbor was a terrible, terrible thing,” Hartnett added. “But they can’t truly fathom how awful it was unless they were actually there.”

Hartnett, who was just 22 years old at the time of the atrocity, described the experience as a never-ending stretch of misery that seemed like something from a bad movie.

Explaining that at the time he was merely doing what was asked of him by those in charge, Hartnett said he has always been tormented by the unspeakable acts he witnessed in Pearl Harbor. Wracked with guilt, he has questioned the errors in judgment that allowed the three-hour tragedy to occur in the first place.

“Of course it affected the whole country, but I have to live with it every day of my life,” said Hartnett, surveying the place where a cruel and delusional egomaniac directed the disgraceful attack on American culture. “The truth is, we were never prepared for an atrocity of this magnitude, and I guess it all happened so quickly that we never had a chance. Even now, all these years later, it makes me sick just thinking about it.”

“I talk to my buddy Ben about it sometimes—he understands,” Hartnett added. “We were in that shit together.”