Your Grandfather deserves credit for helping build this country. What a story.
Funny how he knew the japs would attack but FDR’s govt claimed it was a surprise attack.. It was nessasary though, to shake the US public into action.
Mom told me how amazing it was that Grandpa with not even a grade school education figured out what was going on in the Far East. He did read a newspaper every day and listened to the radio, when radio was in its golden age.
Didn’t like FDR, either (everyone forgets that in the wake of the Bonus March, FDR vetoed legislation to pay out the WWI bonus in 1935 rather than 1945, & was overridden). Said “that crippled SOB is going to get us into another war, just you watch”.
As for Pearl Harbor, read “And I Was There” by Adm. Edwin T. Layton, 1985. Makes clear there was no actual conspiracy to deny commanders at Pearl the intel needed to prepare for an attack, just a monumental series of bureaucratic screwups & turf wars. Plus the Japs’ failure to deliver their ultimatum on time to the State Department, which would have amounted to a declaration of war. Their tardiness turned their act of war into a sneak attack, and FDR used this.