Remembering Pearl Harbor on Memorial Day
Recently, I received a letter from Pearl Harbor survivor Ed Stone. I’d sent him my book, Pearl Harbor’s Final Warning, as a thank you for...
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Valarie Jean Anderson
- Mar 22
- 6 min
"How do you start?"
At two book signings for Pearl Harbor’s Final Warning, I’ve been asked, “How did you get started on your book? I’ve got some great...
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Valarie Jean Anderson
- Feb 10
- 2 min
Pearl Harbor survivors and a great man
There are wonderful things that happen when you publish a book. Not only do you have the gratification of having completed something dear...
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Valarie J Anderson
- Dec 7, 2021
- 3 min
JIJAY, Duly Delivered
Eighty years ago, Tadeo Fuchikami, RCA’s messenger boy #9, sprang onto his motorbike and rode into hell. The date was 7 December 1941,...
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Valarie Jean Anderson
- Dec 7, 2020
- 2 min
"It's Pearl Harbor Day"
Seventy-nine years ago today, my mother, a senior in high school, got on a jitney bus and headed to downtown Honolulu at eight in the...
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Valarie Jean Anderson
- Oct 6, 2020
- 3 min
Scurrying After a Pussy
One of the things I love most about writing history is research. I can lose myself for hours scurrying down rat holes as I hunt for the...
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Valarie Jean Anderson
- Mar 24, 2020
- 2 min
Remember?
Hording? Shelter-at-home? Government restrictions? Food shortages? Fact vs fake news? “You have a most grave responsibility to the nation...
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Valarie Jean Anderson
- Dec 8, 2019
- 6 min
"He was no coward" Tadao Fuchikami, Messenger Boy #9
The Footfalls of History 7 December 1941- Day of the Pearl Harbor Attack Tadao Fuchikami, Messenger Boy #9, roared up to...
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Valarie J Anderson
- Nov 13, 2019
- 6 min
In the Shadow of the Bear
At our age, Andy and I vacation not to sit and veg, but to see and learn. We broke up the long flight from PDX to Finland with a...
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Val Anderson
- Nov 1, 2019
- 4 min
David Sarnoff; A rags to riches story
The Footfalls of History In 1919 when countries were picking up the pieces of the Great War, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D....
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Valarie Anderson
- Oct 10, 2019
- 8 min
From Russia with Love
We took advantage of our time in Finland which shares its eastern border with Russia, to make an overnight trip to Vyborg, Russia, by...
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Valarie Jean Anderson
- Oct 1, 2019
- 3 min
Shanghai's Little Russia, 1930-40's
The Footfalls of History Nina in Tsingtau 1931 Stashed among the piles of paper of my grandfather’s (George Street) notebooks, was the...
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Val Anderson
- Sep 1, 2019
- 4 min
Food for an island at War
The Footfalls of History One of the more intriguing things I learned while researching Pearl Harbor’s Final Warning involved the issue of...
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Val Anderson
- Aug 1, 2019
- 3 min
Cantonments: What the heck were they?
The Footfalls of History When I began writing Pearl Harbor’s Final Warning, I kept coming across the word “Cantonment.” I also had a W-2...
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Valarie Anderson
- Jul 22, 2019
- 1 min
Money Eater: Bernard Otto Kuehn
If you don't already know, I wrote a book and self published it through Amazon. It's about a German who spied for the Japanese before the...
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Val Anderson
- Jul 1, 2019
- 7 min
Free A Man to Fight
The Footfalls of History She was 5 foot tall and 100 pounds on a wet day. And she was a Marine. Not a WAVE or a WAAC or a SPARS or a...
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Val Anderson
- Jun 1, 2019
- 3 min
The Boogie House Girls
The Footfalls of History It was 1942, and the fleet was in. In Honolulu prostitution was legal, and it was [1]welcomed. A white river of...
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Valarie J Anderson
- May 1, 2019
- 6 min
FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Robert Shivers; The man with a special heart
The Footfalls of History It was a typical 1939 Honolulu day, sunny at Waikiki and sultry in the highlands when Special Agent-in-Charge...
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Val Anderson
- Apr 1, 2019
- 3 min
The Footfalls of History
The Rest of the Story- Takeo Yoshikawa; from playboy spy to poverty Takeo Yoshikawa, code-named Tadashi Morimura, wove his way into the...
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Val Anderson
- Mar 1, 2019
- 9 min
The Footfalls of History
The Rest of the Story-Dr. and Mrs. Mori My grandfather made a horrible mistake in 1941. He suspected a prominent Japanese couple of...
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