Again I cannot verify what is written below, but I do know Nimitz was a leader of men. He never once allowed the hand-wringers and defeatists to influence his decisions to move forward and take the fight to our enemies.
Little wonder then why the American people elected Donald Trump. He has stood the test of personal attacks on an hourly basis from all sorts of people and organization that have a vested interest in see America's influence diminished or destroyed, let alone the country itself be "Transformed'' into a socialsit and autocratic powered centralized nation of tyranny governed by the few.
Truly, Nimitz was right as well that the God of faith was there to ensure the leaders during this period of our history were ready to take the reigns of power to deliver our nation back to the people from the hands of those that wanted us to diminished or destroyed.
And so it is to day, those that wish us to be diminished and powerless to have individual freedom and liberty as guides for prosperity and happiness, progressive socialist liberal democrats are fully engaged in the effort to take the power of the people away and rest it in the hands of the god of corrupt government.
And again, the people understood the danger of the last several decades of democrats, and the last 8 years of Barrrack's progressive socialist's 'transformation', they elected someone to stop the destruction. And he has. He promised to ''make America great Again'' and he has and is doing just that. When was the last time a politician actually did what they said they would do>
If we truly believe our country is worth saving for ourselves and our families, don't ever vote for another democrat. Not ever. Their history is one of deceit and destruction. They actually mean to do us harm.
God & 3 Mistakes
What God did at Pearl Harbor that day is interesting and I never knew this little bit of history.
Tour boats ferry people out to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii every thirty minutes. We just missed a ferry and had to wait thirty minutes. I went into a small gift shop to kill time. In the gift shop, I purchased a small book entitled, "Reflections on Pearl Harbor" by Admiral Chester Nimitz.
Sunday, December 7th, 1941--Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington , DC. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the phone.
He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. There was such a spirit of despair, dejection and defeat--you would have thought the Japanese had already won the war.
On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Big sunken battleships and navy vessels cluttered the waters everywhere you looked. As the tour boat returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat asked, "Well Admiral, what do you think after seeing all this destruction?"
Admiral Nimitz's reply shocked everyone within the sound of his voice. Admiral Nimitz said, "The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever make, or God was taking care of America . Which do you think it was?"
Shocked and surprised, the young helmsman asked, "What do mean by saying the Japanese made the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?
Nimitz explained:
Mistake number one: The Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800.
Mistake number two:
When the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have had to tow every one of those ships to America to be repaired. As it is now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the time we could have towed them to America. And I already have crews ashore anxious to man those ships.
Mistake number three:
Every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war is in top of the ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply .
That's why I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could make or, God was taking care of America .
I've never forgotten what I read in that little book. It is still an inspiration as I reflect upon it. In jest, I might suggest that because Admiral Nimitz was a Texan, born and raised in Fredericksburg, Texas -- he was a born optimist. But any way you look at it--Admiral Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in a situation and circumstance where everyone else saw only despair and defeatism.
President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job. We desperately needed a leader that could see silver lining in the midst of the clouds of dejection, despair and defeat.
There is a reason that our national motto is, IN GOD WE TRUST. Why have we forgotten? PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY! In God we trust!
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