| date: | Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:20 PM | ||
| subject: | Fwd: FW: Dec. 7, 1941 |
> > Subject: Dec. 7, 1941
> >
> >
> > What God did at
> > Pearl Harbor that day.
> >
> >
> >
> > What God did at
> > Pearl Harbor that day Really interesting, and I never knew
> > this
> >
> > little bit of
> > history:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 everywhere 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 Fredericksburg, Texas -- he was a born optimist. But any
> > way 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > What God did at
> > Pearl Harbor that day.
> >
> >
> >
> > What God did at
> > Pearl Harbor that day Really interesting, and I never knew
> > this
> >
> > little bit of
> > history:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 everywhere 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 Fredericksburg, Texas -- he was a born optimist. But any
> > way 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.
> >
>>Why do
ReplyDelete>>these forwards
>>show a lack
>>of competence
>>in formatting?
>>Is this
>>Redneck
>>Haiku?
Admiral Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in a
ReplyDelete> > situation and
> >
> > circumstance
> > where everyone else saw only despair and
> > defeatism.
Golly gosh, RWD, ya don't say? Well here's a clue: maybe you and all your rightwingnut pals at Fox, Hate Radio, the Christian Broadcast Network, and all the hacks & shills at rightwing think tanks, plus the RNC and all the rightwing Oligarchs, and most esp the current crop of fascist losers running for GOP Pres could, ya know, LEARN from Admiral Nimitz's playbook.
How 'bout that??? All we ever see from your whining crowd is endless negativity, complaints about nothing, and temper tantrums. Rightwingnuts & Teahadists & Talibangelicals are so consistently negative and victimizing that I'd LOVE for you to, you know, actually learn from Admiral Nimitz.
yeah: ha ha, that'll be the day.
"The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make, OR God was taking care of America"
ReplyDeleteAnd then the forward lists the three mistakes.
The word 'or' can be a tricky little bugger. Use it wisely.
If Fox news were around during Pearl Harbor they would have proclaimed that FDR was an incompetent buffoon and personally responsible for Pearl Harbor. In the meanwhile the Republicans in Congress would be screaming about impeaching FDR and blocking any legislation that was put on the table by the Democrats.
ReplyDeleteIn the mean while the Japanese would be marching on the victory.