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This coming Sunday marks the 62nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. [Yet] the attack on Pearl Harbor remains surrounded in controversy and mythology. ...there is another controversy that should have been put to rest long ago. That concerns history’s judgment of Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet at the time of the Japanese attack. The Roberts Commission, formed in December 1941 to investigate the tragedy, pronounced Kimmel "derelict in his duty" and "solely responsible for the success of the Japanese attack." Although ten subsequent official investigations or inquiries would exonerate Kimmel, the verdict of...