ile, and that they were not afraid to harm US boats (think of the accidental USS Panay incident of 1937). Almost exactly four years later, the Japanese are again laughing at us, this time for Pearl Harbor. Upon scouting the harbor days prior to the bombing, Japanese scouts made a report back to Tokyo describing how there are absolutly no forms of defense being taken to prevent an attack. Even if Washington did have its screwups in issueing Short have stronger defense systmes, he should have showed the inititive and done it himself. The bottomline is the fact that there was attack and 2400 people did die. We must not forget them or those who were killed the same day at the attackes of the Philippines, Guam, Midway, Hong Kong, and Malaya. ...
