(re)watching for Memorial Day...

EPIC movie. Truly. Sprawling and indecisive tension-riddled.
Bit understated cast wise for the grandiose world history scope/scale.
Though that prolly honestly adds-to/helps here. As this was not a win for U.Sam.
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Nevertheless... what could we have, done?
Or done better?

From my zillion WW2 books... we issued and went through 2-4 false alarms
of varying War Warning intensity at Pearl and in the Fillopines/Pacific installations in general.

Left everyone pretty much confused and worn-down a bit...
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Tho' who do you do?
Sail the fleet back to the Left-Coast? (catty move in some ways)
However surely safer. Ships are safest at anchor. (tho' that's not what ships are, for...)

What if Pearl had been on: "ALL HANDS MAN YOUR BATTLESTATIONS
THiS IS NO DRILL"? 1,000% locked cocked -and all leaves canceled- ready to rock?

Could we have actually won Pearl Harbor???
Our ~400 aircraft and A.A. guns vs. their ~400 planes (tho' we do have homecourt).

DISCUSS >>> diasgree



TIA,
b.street