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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ben Wa who wrote (3756)	10/27/2000 10:51:32 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 10042

I wonder if we are thinking of the same investigation Had to "recall my recollection" of history and do a websearch on the topic. I was correct in that it was Gen. Short who was one of the officers exonerated for responsibility at Pearl Harbor. Adm. Kimmel was the other. reagan.com Justice for Pearl Harbor Commanders Last week, the Senate reopened a long closed page of American history. On May 25, it voted 52 to 47 in favor of legislation that would restore the ranks of Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and General Walter C. Short, the two commanders at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. After the war they had been demoted as punishment for failing to respond adequately to the Japanese air attack that crippled our Pacific fleet. Kimmel and Short, however, always maintained that they were scapegoats for those higher up the chain of command. The Senate vote belatedly acknowledges that they were right. There is no question that the Army and Navy were unprepared on that day of infamy. Although Kimmel and Short knew that war with Japan was a growing possibility, they had no special reason to expect an air attack on the morning of December 7......etc