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PEARL HARBOR MISTAKES,
Another chapter in the Providential History of the
United States of America. God bless us!
A very different and interesting conclusion of the
December 7th attack on 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. 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 a 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 battle - ships 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 everyone of those ships to America to be repaired. As
it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised.
The author of the original communication writes:
This may interest you. I talked with this young lady yesterday
afternoon. This is what what told me: She had been bow
hunting elk using a cow call near Headquarters, Idaho.
She changed her position and was crossing an open meadow
when the wolf appeared at the edge. It saw her and the wind
was blowing directly from her to the wolf. She raised her
arms and waved them to catch it's attention, it came straight
for her. The bow was dropped and the
S&W M-29 44
Magnum
was deployed. She made the 1st shot at about
10
feet
, hitting it above the left eye. It dropped and changed
direction, trying to get away after the shot. She shot it again in
the lungs, then a 3rd time in the neck. It took two men to lift it
into the pick-up.
She's a tall woman, about 5' 11" and pretty tough. She hunts
bear and cougar with hounds - her own hounds! Her husband
is a long range shooter and is adept at making 600 plus yard
shots. The lady, however, is the one who busts the brush with
bow or rifle. The wolf's size comes into perspective when you
compare
her
size
to
it.
Another report was received this week was from
Tim
Johnson
of Fishhawk Guides in Clarkston, the fellow who
donates fishing trips to our Elmer Keith Shoots each year. He
reports: "One of my Idaho Outfitter friends hunted a group of
out-of-state elk archery hunters from the Great Lakes region
last week and they called in a pack of 17 wolves by cow
calling. None of the hunters had a sidearm or wolf tag and it
was a very traumatic experience as the wolves surrounded the
hunters! All hunters went home early very disturbed claiming
these wolves are very different from the Great Lakes wolves
as they claimed these Idaho wolves actually "Hunt" you and
were
not
afraid!"
Outdoor have definitely taken on new dimensions of
excitement since the save the wolf movement.
Anyone for berry picking without a sidearm?