Grand Forks Herald editorial page editor and sometimes blogger (I wish it was more) Tom Dennis had a very interesting post today concerning Pearl Harbor. 

The New York Times offers a great treat for history buffs on Pearl Harbor Day: A six-part, 15,000-word NYT series on the post-attack harbor salvage and warship reconstruction effort, the publication of which the Navy forbid in 1942—so it’s seeing print for the very first time today.

It’s well worth a look, especially the slide show with audio commentary detailing the resurrection of two battleships that were sunk in the Japanese attack. 

I haven’t read anything on his link.  (You can click here to go directly the the Times.) I thought I’d hurry and get it up before I read it because it is after all, Pearl Harbor day.  I’m really looking forward to going through it later today.

Tom also had this to say which I found very interesting:

I’m sure that reporter Robert Trumbull thought of himself as a dispassionate truth-teller. He writes from a fairly detached, third-person perspective. But the finish, the patina, on his stories show his clear commitment to the American cause, his respect for the military and his sense that the officers, sailors and civilian dockworkers as well as himself all are “soldiers” in the same great cause: the cause of victory in the World War.

I think that Trumbull’s attitude, which was shared by almost all American reporters at the time, helped the war effort then. I think its notable absence in the modern media hurts the war effort today.