LESSONS LEARNED FROM PEARL HARBOR.(SPECTRUM)

From: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) | Date: December 8, 2005 | Copyright information

Today's issue

Are the lessons from Pearl Harbor relevant to this post-Sept. 11 world?

Background

Wednesday marked the anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Twenty-one ships of the U.S. Pacific fleet were damaged, and the attack brought the United States into World War II. More than 2,400 American lives were lost.

What lessons did we learn from that attack? And 64 years later, are those lessons releva...

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