GI, most of us "feel your pain". We've "Been there done that"! On a hopeful note I've been to "Pearl"......twice. I wasn't around on December 7th, 1941 but we've all seen pictures...and film clips ( beaucoup times) of the  destruction on that date "that will live in infamy". I am happy to report that Pearl Harbor has completely recovered and all that remains are several memorials to that day.....the most touching being the USS Arizona.My point is that yes, we lost that battle, but less than four years later (9/2/1945...V J Day)  we ended the war....victoriously. Let us hope that our Pearl Harbor day is now behinnd us (the necessitly for us to invoke the feared YA to keep our Arizona afloat) and that the re-building will commence."Hope springs eternal", Bill of the Board.