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To: MarlonRando

That’s stupid. It’s well known that the failure to inform the US was due to distressingly mundane screwups involving not having a decent typist available on a Sunday morning at the Japanese embassy in Washington and not accounting for the time required to decipher the coded message from Japan instructing them to notify Washington that Japan had declared war.


7 posted on 03/19/2026 10:47:38 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: EnderWiggin1970

If they’d been on time with that, we’d have been getting the declaration of war about the same time as the bombs started falling.


10 posted on 03/19/2026 10:49:57 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Doesn’t matter.

Pearl Harbor was a SNEAK ATTACK.


22 posted on 03/19/2026 11:10:29 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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