In this week's Texoma's Treasures, a Waurika woman shares her incredible survival story. More than 65 years ago she witnessed a defining moment in U.S. history. Lindsey Rogers tells the story of how Bonnie Aten survived the attack on Pearl Harbor.

In December of 1941 Bonnie Aten had just turned 25. The native Texan was living in the Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, where her husband was stationed. As a young mother of two she faced many challenges, but an air-stirke on their community was something no one saw coming.

It started as a typical Sunday morning. Mrs. Aten says she was up feeding her four month old baby when all of a sudden she heard shots being fired.

"I turned to Louis and I said, 'louis, the Navy's firing offly early for a Sunday morning.' and he had a quizicle look on his face and he said that was not Navy gun fire," Bonnie Aten said.

She and her husband Louis ran to the front door to see what was going on.

"Just in time to see a plane coming down and strafing right down that parade ground that was in front of our quarters and it was low enough that we could see the pilot from the seat," she said.

As her husband rushed out the door to report to duty, Mrs. Aten rushed to the back patio.

"I remembered we had washed diapers the night before and they were hanging out on the line behind the quarters and I thought my goodness I can't afford to have those diapers shot full of holes so I went out and brought in the diapers," she said.

Eventually a soldier would come to take her and her two children to a safer place. But running across the yard to the barracks turned out to be a very close call.

"Just as we got to the barracks door a plane came down strafing and we just barely got in and the door shut before the bullets started hitting right where we were," Aten said.

Although her son Louis junior was only four and a half at the time, It's a day he will never forget.

"At the age that I was I remember there was a lot of confusion and throughout the day there was quite a bit of chaos," Louis Aten, Jr. said.

While many were in a state of panic and hysteryia, Mrs. Aten somehow managed to keep it together for her kids

"At that particular time mother was not in a panic at least outwardly," Louis said.

After things settled down the Atens were able to move back into their home. Mrs. Aten and the two children boarded ship to go back to California on Easter day, just a few months after the horrific attack.

"I have no desire to go back. I saw the ships burning as we went around Pearl Harbor that night and I can still close my eyes and see them just as plain as they were then," Bonnie Aten said.

But she does re-live the event every time she shares her story. For years, she's been speaking to local school kids about that historic day.

"It makes me feel good to be able to let the young people know that what they see in the movies is glamorized for selling, that there's nothing glamorous about it," she said.

Although Mrs. Aten will be 93 in December, she says she'll continue to share her true historic experiences as long as people will listen.