How three humble privates sounded an alarm only to have it ignored by their immediate superior and America wake up in the middle of World War II.
Today Americans mark 83 years since the Empire of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor at Oahu, Hawaii. Many will quote President Franklin Roosevelt and call it “a date that will live in infamy.” Few will remember three humble privates raising an alarm or apply their lessons today.
“Why,” asked a journalist with the AP, Harold “Hal” Boyle, in 1951, “didn’t someone blow a bugle at Pearl Harbor 10 years ago and wake up America?” It turns out that someone did, but that reveille was ignored by their immediate superior, and America woke up in the middle of World War II.
