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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 about
the attack on Pearl Harbor and that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander
of the Pacific Fleet.
Admiral
Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet and 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 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, "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 on top of the ground in 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 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.
There is a reason that our national motto is, "IN GOD WE
TRUST."
Why have we forgotten?
PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY
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 about
the attack on Pearl Harbor and that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander
of the Pacific Fleet.
Admiral
Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet and 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 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, "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 on top of the ground in 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 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.
There is a reason that our national motto is, "IN GOD WE
TRUST."
Why have we forgotten?
PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY
Thanks Moe
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