In case anyone’s
forgotten – read the Scriptures – Joseph was promised the land of the endless
mountains! America’s as we know them today – a chosen land – a land of freedom –
and with a divinely inspired Constitution
What God did at Pearl Harbor that day is interesting and I never
knew
this little bit of history:
Tour boats ferry people out to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii
every thirty minutes.
We just missed a ferry and had to wait thirty minutes. I went into
a
small gift shop to kill time.
In the gift shop, I purchased a small book entitled,
"Reflections on
Pearl Harbor" by Admiral Chester Nimitz.
Sunday, December 7th, 1941--Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a
concert in Washington , DC .
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 every one 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 .
I've never forgotten what I read in that little book. It is still
an
inspiration as I reflect upon it. In jest, I might suggest
that
because Admiral Nimitz was a Texan, born and raised in
Fredericksburg
, Texas -- he was a born optimist. But any way 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 defeatism.
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.
There is a reason that our national motto is, IN GOD WE TRUST.
Why have we forgotten?
PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY!
In God we trust!
Please pass this important message to others. Americans need
to
stand behind one another!
“Over
the Land”
cji
9/19/17
Japanese
planes filling the skies
unannounced
attacking on Sunday
many
will note the various stories
some
horrific and some good
many
never to be told even once
however,
there’s one of note
over the
land of Pearl that day
a pilot
with bombs to distribute
seeing a
tall white building
standing
by itself on Laie
Laie Hawaii
Temple there
bomb doors
would not open
nothing
worked to attack
the
Temple left safe that day
years
later this same pilot
now a
member of the Church
took his
bride and family
recounting
his story in full
the Lord
protects His own
when
found in righteousness
over the
land of Laie Hawaii!
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