Movie Pearl Harbor -2001

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Made just before 9/11.

One of FDRs inner circle - after the attack - says that if we waste our carriers - the Japs could invade the US west coast -and we "wont't be able to stop them until they get to Chicago."

 

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Made just before 9/11.

One of FDRs inner circle - after the attack - says that if we waste our carriers - the Japs could invade the US west coast -and we "wont't be able to stop them until they get to Chicago."

One of the more shitastic war movies ever made. Tragic.

 

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Seems absurd - but that was the mindset of the times - that the mainland USA could be invaded and occupied.

 

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Seems absurd - but that was the mindset of the times - that the mainland USA could be invaded and occupied.

Just as absurd today as it was then. We do have hindsight though.

 

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The attitude was just the opposite. Racism was the rule of the day. The Japanese were thought to be an inferior race that could not make a ship that would float without capsizing. Americans (including the government) actually thought that the Japanese could not make a plane that would fly and even if they could they all had chronic nearsightedness and would get dizzy. FDR wanted Japan to attack because he thought it would get the US into the "real" war in Europe. The US was criminally neglegent when it came to Pearl Harbor.

 

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Tora! Tora! Tora!

... was a much better Pearl Harbor movie...

... it gave the political background to the attack.

 

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I was more concerned aboutth 1962 Cuban Missle Crises than 9/11 to tell the truth . .

 

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Whatever happened to the Yamamoto's who lived next to Pearl Harbor?...

Pearl Harbor mystery solved 71 years after the bombing
December 25, 2012 - A Dec. 7, 1941, mystery involving racial suspicions and the disappearance of a Japa*nese family living next to Pearl Harbor was solved for an eyewitness to the aerial raid on the 71st anniversary of the attack.

Jimmy Lee was an 11-year-old when planes swooped over his family's farm in what was then known as Kalauao on the shores of Pearl Harbor. Less than a mile from Battleship Row, Lee had a frightening front-row seat to the devastation that was unleashed that Sunday morning. His family headed into the hills, and when they returned after the attacks subsided, Lee went to check on his friend Toshi Yama*moto, whose family ran a big fishpond next door. Toshi, his father and his three sisters were gone. What Lee would find out 71 years later is that armed military police, likely suspicious of the Japa*nese family living so close to Pearl Harbor, gave them 20 minutes to gather up what they could and get out.

Lee remembered seeing smoke and fire and ships burning. Small boats were circling the harbor searching for and picking up survivors and the dead. "I ran down to Toshi's house when we got home, yelling and screaming, ‘Toshi, where you stay?'" Lee, now 82, recalled. From that point on, Lee never saw the family again. For decades, Lee wondered what had happened to Toshi, who was about 16 at the time. Lee said he searched records — without luck — to see if the family had been detained, relocated or held in an internment camp. There were rumors the parents might have been spies, he recalled.

He said he wrote letters to newspapers seeking information. "My hope was that an old man like me would come up and say to me, ‘I'm Toshi,' but it never happened," Lee said. Until Dec. 7, 2012. It wasn't Toshi who reached out to Lee, but his son, Irwin Yama*moto, now 50. The Star-Advertiser had published a story Dec. 3 about Lee, who related Toshi's disappearance. "Dec. 7, 1941, was a tragic day for America, but for myself it was not only witnessing the attack, the excitement and the danger ahead, (but) I lost my good friend. It was an awful day for me," Lee said.

Irwin Yamamoto got an email from a cousin telling him to check out the newspaper story. "She said, ‘You've got to take a look at this because it mentioned by name Toshi,' and I said, ‘That's got to be my father,'" said Yama*moto, who lives in Wahiawa. Toshi died in 1994. His three sisters still live in Hawaii. Lee was on Rick Hamada's radio show on Dec. 7, the 71st anniversary of the attack, and Yama*moto tried to call in. Later that day the show called Lee, who called Yama*moto. On Thursday they met in the parking lot of the Best Buy in Aiea where Lee's family used to have a farm and chickens, pigs, cattle and ducks. "Mr. Lee!" Yamamoto said as he shook Lee's hand.

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