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Article: Pearl Harbor: It Was More Than a Movie.(bibliography and information sources on attack on Pearl Harbor)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
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- National Defense
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- August 1, 2001
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It seems strange that we consider this event not on the anniversary of the date that it occurred nearly 60 years ago, but during the release of a summer movie. Whatever the reason, it is appropriate that Americans not forget Pearl Harbor.
Criticism that Hollywood overdid it, that the movie "lacked a surprise ending," or that the "ships differed in profile" from those that were in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, should be ignored by moviegoers.
Instead, remember the event, the shock that shook America out of its isolationism, the courage and bravery of men such as Dorie Miller (Navy Cross) and the more than 2,400 men and women who died that December ...