Pearl
Harbor
FDR knew two weeks in advance of the upcoming attack on
Pearl Habor. He needed this attack to get Americans into WWII. He
cut off Japans Fuel Supply so to Antagonize them to attack.
FDR was the biggest War Criminal in world history outside of Stalin, Churchill,
and Eisenhower. Hitler comes in at a distant 5th.
We now can say that FDR was also a traitor because he knew that the attack was coming that day.So how is our present situation different than it was then except that virtually the whole of the Obama administration is of the same ilk?
We now can say that FDR was also a traitor because he knew that the attack was coming that day.So how is our present situation different than it was then except that virtually the whole of the Obama administration is of the same ilk?
Pearl Harbor Tour boats ferry people out to the USS Arizona
Memorial in Hawaii every thirty minutes. We just missed a ferry and had to wait
thirty minutes. I went into a small gift shop to kill time.
In the gift shop, I purchased a small book entitled,
"Reflections on Pearl Harbor " by Admiral Chester Nimitz.
Sunday, December 7th, 1941--Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a
concert in Washington D.C. He was paged and told there was a phone call for
him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on
the phone. He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander
of the Pacific Fleet.
Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific
Fleet. He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941.
There was such a spirit of despair, dejection and defeat--you
would have thought the Japanese had already won the war. On Christmas Day,
1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl
Harbor by the Japanese. Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the
waters every where you looked.
As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat
asked, "Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this
destruction?" Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked everyone within the sound of
his voice.
Admiral Nimitz said, "The Japanese made three of the biggest
mistakes an attack force could ever make, or God was taking care of America .
Which do you think it was?"
Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do
mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force
ever made?" Nimitz explained:
Mistake number one: the Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine
out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same
ships had been lured to sea and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men
instead of 3,800.
Mistake number two: when the Japanese saw all those battleships
lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never
once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry
docks, we would have had to tow every one of those ships to America to be
repaired.
As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised.
One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and
at sea by the time we could have towed them to America . And I already have
crews ashore anxious to man those ships.
Mistake number three: Every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of
war is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One
attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply.
That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes
an attack force could make or God was taking care of America .
I've never forgotten what I read in that little book. It is still
an inspiration as I reflect upon it. In jest, I might suggest that because
Admiral Nimitz was a Texan, born and raised in Fredricksburg , Texas -- he was
a born optimist. But anyway you look at it--Admiral Nimitz was able to see a
silver lining in a situation and circumstance where everyone else saw only
despair and defeatism.
President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job. We
desperately needed a leader that could see silver linings in the midst of the
clouds of dejection, despair and defeat.
There is a reason that our national motto is, IN GOD WE TRUST.
Why have we forgotten?
PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY!
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