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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Val Anderson
- Feb 3, 2019
- 7 min
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...
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Val Anderson
- Dec 7, 2016
- 1 min
Remember Pearl Harbor
Seventy-five years ago a message arrived too late—too late to warn the command at Pearl Harbor that Japan was probably going to strike...
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Val Anderson
- Nov 23, 2016
- 1 min
Happy Birthday, George
On this day, seventy five years ago, my uncle, George Street, Jr. turned nineteen. He lived on Oahu with his father and my mother and...
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Val Anderson
- Oct 13, 2016
- 3 min
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 ...
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Val Anderson
- Sep 30, 2016
- 2 min
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...
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Val Anderson
- Aug 30, 2016
- 2 min
Parallels in history
If you have read Erik Larson’s Dead Wake, you might have been struck by the comparison between the British governments handling or lack...
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