Another blast from the past(1941) Infamy

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"A japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is a strategic impossiblity" --Major George Fielding Eliot(author and military science writer)- September, 1938

"The Hawaiian Islands are over-protected; the entire Japanese fleet and air force could not seriously threaten Oahu" --Captain William T Pulleston(former Chief of U.S. Naval Intelligence) August, 1941

"No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping" --Frank Knox(U.S. Secretary of the Navy), December 4, 1941

"Well, don't worry about it....It's nothing" --Lieutenant Kermit Tyler(Duty officer of shafter information center, Hawaii) upon being informed that private Joseph Lockard had picked up a radar signal of what appeared to be at least 50 planes soaring toward Oahu at almost 180 miles per hour, December 7, 1941

from me: better prepare... it's the only way to be sure

just more to think about when you think listening to the "experts" will guarantee food on your table, or access to money, etc

-- SuperL (Slf@yahoo.com), July 19, 1999

Answers

SuperL,

Don't you know that history NEVER repeat's itself? Also, genXer's are having too much fun complaining about how bored they are with there "tough life", for anything truly trying to take place during their life? We have risen above that, we have come to fa--SPLAT...Nothing like a brick wall to snap you outta it.

Not just y2k, this relates to the whole state of the world. We are teetering on war at just about every front. Just keep eye's open, and when you see a wall...TURN!!

-- CygnusXI (noburnt@toast.net), July 19, 1999.


Cygnus, it looks like walls all around most days. Turn straight up?

-- Tricia the Canuck (tricia_canuck@hotmail.com), July 20, 1999.

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