Are you a politician who cared more about facts than the truth? You’re not the only one.
Eric Adams, the Mayor of New York City, attended a Memorial Day ceremony at USS Intrepid Museum. Like the USS Missouri in Pearl Harbor or the USS Iowa at Los Angeles Harbor the Intrepid are ex-warships that have been converted into floating museums. Since 1982, the museum has been open. When a visitor enters the Intrepid museum the ship’s bell is staring back. Like all ship bells, the year of commission is right on the bell – 1943. In fact the USS Intrepid was commissioned in August of 1943 It didn’t make its way to Pearl Harbor until two years after the Pearl Harbor attack.
What is the significance of this? Eric Adams tweeted about Intrepid’s history. He get’s a solid F in the effort.
My historical dates sometimes seem to get mixed up. However, December 7th 1941 was the date of Pearl Harbor’s attack. If memory serves me correctly, Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. There were no carriers there, and none had to survive the attack. Adams may have been confused by Ben Affleck’s movie Pearl Harbor. Ben participated in all major air combats in Europe and in the Pacific, and flew from the Hornet in the Doolittle Raid. They were courageous raiders seeking revenge for Pearl Harbor. Sorry.
If carriers were moored at Pearl Harbor, war might have been delayed by up to a year. However, who am I, and how can we dispute New York City’s Mayor?
In any case. Mayor Adams’ tweet reminded me of another great historian – John Blutarsky, sage of the Delta House Historical Society, when he recounted in stark detail the German attack on Pearl Harbor.
Germans? Forget it, he’s rolling…
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