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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 on top of the
ground in 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.
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." And it must remain our motto, if we are to be the
GREAT nation who returned from the brink of destruction
and despair to be the greatest nation on earth which is
“the
home of the free and the home of the brave.”
UPDATE ON WESTERN GREAT LAKES WOLF
DELISTING
Yesterday the Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar,
announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(FWS) will be issuing a final rule removing gray
wolves from the list of endangered and threatened
species in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, and in
portions of adjoining states. Safari Club International
(SCI) lauds Secretary Salazar for again attempting to
return these recovered wolves to state management.
This rule will become final 30 days after it is published
in the
Federal Register
and at that point state game
agencies will be tasked with the future management of
gray wolves. There are over 4,000 wolves in the
Western Great Lakes population segment, a number
which far exceeds the species’ recovery goals. The
FWS and states achieved those wolf recovery goals
over a decade ago.
This is the FWS’s third attempt to delist these
recovered wolves. The previous attempts were reversed
after the delistings were challenged by anti-hunting
groups and overturned by federal courts. “While the
announcement of the delisting of wolves in the Western
Great Lakes is a positive step, the FWS has attempted
to delist these recovered wolves twice before, only to be
thwarted by environmental radicals who used litigation
as a weapon to the detriment of sportsmen and species,”
stated SCI President Kevin Anderson. “Safari Club
fully expects the same environmental groups to once
again employ costly and dilatory litigation tactics to
attempt to stop this reasonable delisting of the
recovered gray wolf.”
SCI has gone to court to defend each previous attempt
by the FWS to delist the Western Great Lakes wolves
and will likely do so again in any future litigation
challenge to this latest delisting. SCI has defended
hunters in numerous court cases over wolves since 2001
and is the uncontested leader advocating for wolf
delisting. SCI strongly supports returning wolf
management to the states and successfully lobbied for
federal legislation to prevent legal challenges to the
delisting of recovered wolves in Montana and Idaho.
SCI continues to advocate for the same legislative
solution to be adopted to prevent legal challenges to the
Western Great Lakes delisting.
“If the Endangered Species Act worked as intended, the
delisting of recovered species would be as easy as
listing them,” stated SCI Chief Communications
Officer Larry Rudolph. “SCI will continue to advocate
for much needed ESA reforms so species, like the gray
wolf, do not find themselves stuck on the endangered
species list long after recovery is achieved.”
Mike:
I purchased the Deer Hunt on the Miller Ranch
at last years banquet and attached is a picture
of the deer I took on Thanksgiving
morning. Due to my work schedule, I only had
1 and1/2 days to hunt and was very pleased to
take the deer I did. The real trophy on this trip
was getting to know John Miller and his
family. They were very open and friendly and
helpful. John agreed to accommodate my
schedule without any qualms and was a great
help in skinning and quartering the deer for
transportation. Great country, good folks and a
pretty deer, it doesn't get any better.
Tom Walton