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To: fireman15

Admiral Kimmel and General Short were scapegoated for the losses at Pearl Harbor. Each knew a Jap attack was imminent & prepared defenses as best they could with the intel they had.

Their descendants are trying to clear their names to this day.


25 posted on 12/07/2018 7:31:20 AM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: elcid1970
Admiral Kimmel and General Short were scapegoated for the losses at Pearl Harbor

There were many other officers who were smeared as well. It really was a disgusting display of a Democrat politician (Roosevelt) throwing a whole group of good men under the bus for political expediency. Every career WWII veteran we ever knew who was a member of the military before we got into the war viewed it this way. And we knew quite a few.

31 posted on 12/07/2018 7:48:20 AM PST by fireman15
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