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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....
Val Anderson
Nov 1, 20194 min read
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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...
Valarie Anderson
Jul 22, 20191 min read
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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...
Val Anderson
Jun 1, 20193 min read
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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...
Valarie J Anderson
May 1, 20196 min read
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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...
Val Anderson
Apr 1, 20193 min read
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Hawaiian Island Donnybrook, December 1941.
The Footfalls of History; Tidbits of history that we found during our research. 7 December 1941~ 1:00 pm – Niihau Island, Territory of...
Val Anderson
Feb 3, 20197 min read
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One of my heroes
Writing about Pearl Harbor has been a wonderful learning experience. And one of the best has been uncovering the stories about ...
Val Anderson
Oct 13, 20163 min read
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Storm Clouds on the Horizon
My local paper, the Bend Bulletin, published a thought provoking editorial by Victor Davis Hanson, historian and classicist at the Hoover...
Val Anderson
Sep 30, 20162 min read
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