From: jecorbett4@gmail.com   
      
   For those who might have forgotten, today is the 82nd anniversary of the   
   attack on Pearl Harbor. As is their custom, the History Channel is running   
   a series of documentaries about the attack which I have recorded. I just   
   finished watching the first one which examines a conspiracy theory that   
   FDR knew the attack on Pearl was coming and allowed it to happen to gain   
   public support for the US entering WWII. The program started off by raising   
   that question without actually stating that to be the case.   
      
   The main thrust of the program was that Admiral Kimmel and General Short   
   were made the scapegoats for a series of miscommunications and outright   
   blunders the prevented the two commanders from being prepared for an   
   attack. That much I believe and that is widely accepted. One thing I learned   
   was that immediately following the attack. FDR appointed a commission to   
   investigate what went wrong, headed by Chief Justice Stone. Sound familiar?   
   The commission found both Kimmel and Short had been derelict in their   
   duty and both were relieved of their commands.   
      
   The rest of the program was spent detailing the miscommunications and   
   blunders that took place leading up to the tragic attack and how it could   
   have been prevented had the commanders in Hawaii been made aware of   
   the intelligence prior to the attack. The program was first aired in 2016 and   
   almost none of it was new information. It was all covered in the 1970 movie   
   Tora, Tora, Tora.   
      
   In the end, the documentary came clean and acknowledged that there is no   
   evidence than FDR nor anyone else knew an attack on Pearl Harbor was   
   imminent, that it is all speculation. We knew they were going to attack us   
   somewhere but the belief was that they would strike somewhere in the western   
   Pacific, possibly the Phillipines or Guam. It noted that the US   
   Senate passed a resolution absolving Kimmel of blame for the attack but   
   that no US President has issued an order exonerating Kimmel and restoring   
   his four star rank. It ended with a curious quote from then Vice-President   
   Joe Biden stating that the treatment of Kimmel was the greatest injustice in   
   American military history. I have been able to find nothing to indicate that   
   during his time as President, Biden has done anything to remedy that injustice.   
      
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