It’s Pearl Harbor Day as I write this and I wonder if it’s being forgotten or being rewritten. Is history actually history anymore? 84 years ago, when we were attacked and many of our soldiers and sailors were dying, my Dad watched as a crew member on one of the four subs in Pearl Harbor. Lucky were they that day to be in the inner harbor, more protected, but having to watch while others died, blown up by the attackers.

What is curious now, after listening to recounts of his seven war (and that was a war!) patrols on diesel submarines, is how they took on board survivors of their torpedo launches on what was then the enemy.

How, often, those survivors, or prisoners of war, were berthed in the Captain’s cabin as that was the best space available. No extra hits on those survivors in the “f

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