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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
And yes, hindsight is 20-20. But still and all, everybody knows Florida is ground zero for devastating hurricanes. Seems kind of bone-headed to station your most expensive and rare hardware there.

Walter Short, the Army General in charge of Hawaii was run out of the Army after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

Different times.

America's most effective and literally irreplaceable air superiority fighter was left in the path of a major hurricane with days of warning.

Will Generals and Colonels be demoted to Airman and sent to Fairbanks to de-ice airplanes?

You know they won't.

54 posted on 10/13/2018 8:47:28 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

General Short was reinstated (posthumously) and an apology given his family for the terrible injustice done him by the government. Intelligence services and the General Staff withheld crucial information which left him blind to the imminent Japanese threat to Hawaii. Know the facts before you accuse.


57 posted on 10/13/2018 9:16:09 PM PDT by Colonelbuzzsaw (USAF AIR BATTLE MANAGER, retired after 36 years)
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