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<DIV>George...</DIV>
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<DIV>Nice to see this. I live in the hometown of Chester Nimitz and
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<DIV>the home of the National Museum of the Pacific War.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0080ff size=4 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="14"><B><I>Don Murray, W4WJ</FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=4 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="14"></B></I><BR>Retired from 40 years of
Miami Television Engineering<BR>35+ years @ NBC O&O WTVJ<BR><BR>Now in
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<DIV>In a message dated 6/20/2011 10:26:10 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
georgenann@aol.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>Ted,</DIV>
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<DIV>Thought you might like to see this, if you haven't already.</DIV>
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<DIV>George Keller<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sent:
Sun, Jun 19, 2011 10:38 pm<BR>Subject: Stuff "Interesting facts on our
history"<BR><BR>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium"><B>Pearl
Harbor: A Very interesting observation and perspective on our
history</B><BR></SPAN></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
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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><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica'; FONT-SIZE: medium"><B> Very
interesting observation!</B><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; WORD-SPACING: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"></DIV>
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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></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <BR> </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></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <BR> </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></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <BR> </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></I></B></SPAN><EM><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></B></EM><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR><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></SPAN></I></B><EM><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </SPAN></B></EM><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR><EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif"> </SPAN></EM></SPAN></I></B><EM><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13pt">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</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">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">.<SPAN> </SPAN></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></SPAN></I></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <BR> </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></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></STRONG></DIV></FONT></DIV><!-- end of AOLMsgPart_1_0f292ead-98f8-47ad-b6d7-318274cd270f --></DIV></FONT><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Please
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