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Val Anderson
Apr 1, 20193 min read
The Footfalls of History
The Rest of the Story- Takeo Yoshikawa; from playboy spy to poverty Takeo Yoshikawa, code-named Tadashi Morimura, wove his way into the...
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Val Anderson
Mar 1, 20199 min read
The Footfalls of History
The Rest of the Story-Dr. and Mrs. Mori My grandfather made a horrible mistake in 1941. He suspected a prominent Japanese couple of...
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Val Anderson
Feb 3, 20197 min read
Hawaiian Island Donnybrook, December 1941.
The Footfalls of History; Tidbits of history that we found during our research. 7 December 1941~ 1:00 pm – Niihau Island, Territory of...
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Val Anderson
Dec 7, 20161 min read
Remember Pearl Harbor
Seventy-five years ago a message arrived too late—too late to warn the command at Pearl Harbor that Japan was probably going to strike...
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Val Anderson
Nov 23, 20161 min read
Happy Birthday, George
On this day, seventy five years ago, my uncle, George Street, Jr. turned nineteen. He lived on Oahu with his father and my mother and...
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Val Anderson
Oct 13, 20163 min read
One of my heroes
Writing about Pearl Harbor has been a wonderful learning experience. And one of the best has been uncovering the stories about ...
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Val Anderson
Sep 30, 20162 min read
Storm Clouds on the Horizon
My local paper, the Bend Bulletin, published a thought provoking editorial by Victor Davis Hanson, historian and classicist at the Hoover...
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Val Anderson
Aug 30, 20162 min read
Parallels in history
If you have read Erik Larson’s Dead Wake, you might have been struck by the comparison between the British governments handling or lack...
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