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<div>Thought you might like to see this, if you haven't already.</div>
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<div>Chester Nimitz Junior, (son of WW2 Fleet Admiral Nimitz) himself a rear Admiral, became President of The Perkin-Elmer Corporation upon retiring from the Navy and my boss at our home offices in Norwalk, CT. Cursed like the salty sailor he was and told tall tales about getting busted for drag-racing his Nuclear Submarine at maximum speed against other U.S. and British submarines on the Thames River giving the very proper British Navy fits. I shuddered every time I had to bring a female scientist client in to meet him. </div>
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<div>His Naval career in subs was served totally in the absence of the fairer sex, and I never knew what was</div>
<div>going to come out of his mouth next. A great Boss who always treated me right and sent me a glowing</div>
<div>letter of commendation which I still cherish. Wish we had more like him now!<br>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt">Tour boats ferry people out to the USS Arizona Memorial in<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>Hawaii<SPAN> </SPAN>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<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>Pearl Harbor<SPAN> </SPAN>" by Admiral Chester Nimitz.<br>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt">Sunday, December 7th, 1941--Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>Washington<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>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.<br>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt">Admiral Nimitz flew to<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>Hawaii<SPAN> </SPAN>to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. He landed at<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>Pearl Harbor<SPAN> </SPAN>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<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>Pearl Harbor<SPAN> </SPAN>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, "<EM><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif">The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make or God was taking care of</SPAN></B></EM><SPAN><B><I> </I></B></SPAN><EM><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN> </SPAN>America</SPAN></B></EM><SPAN><B><I> </I></B></SPAN><EM><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif">. Which do you think it was?"</SPAN></B></EM> Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?"<br>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt">Nimitz explained.<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><EM><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif">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.</SPAN></B></EM><SPAN><B><I> </I></B></SPAN><B><I><br>
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<EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif"> </SPAN></EM></SPAN></I></B><SPAN><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt"> </SPAN></I></B></SPAN><EM><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt">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 everyone of those ships to</SPAN></B></EM><SPAN><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt"> </SPAN></I></B></SPAN><EM><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt"><SPAN> </SPAN>America</SPAN></B></EM><SPAN><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt"> </SPAN></I></B></SPAN><EM><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt">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</SPAN></B></EM><SPAN><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt"> </SPAN></I></B></SPAN><EM><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt"><SPAN> </SPAN>America</SPAN></B></EM><SPAN><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt"> </SPAN></I></B></SPAN><EM><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt">. And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships.</SPAN></B></EM><SPAN><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt"> </SPAN></I></B></SPAN><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt"><br>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt">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<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>Fredricksburg<SPAN> </SPAN>,<SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>Texas<SPAN> </SPAN>--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.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"></SPAN></div>
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