The following is text from email sent to me from a good friend (cousin inlaw from the UK).[/color]Three Mistakes Japanese Made at Pearl Harbor

From a book:  "Reflections on Pearl Harbor" by Admiral Chester Nimitz.

Sunday, December 7th, 1941 Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in
Washington D.C.  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 everyone 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."

Anyway 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 defeat.
President Roosevelt had chosen the right man for the right job.

We desperately needed a leader that could see silver linings in the
midst of the clouds of dejection, despair and defeat.

And we need one NOW!

There is a reason that our national motto is IN GOD WE TRUST.

[color=red]IN GOD WE TRUST only works if the 'people' believe in God.  As a nation we do not not.