{"id":4363,"date":"2012-12-07T00:26:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T05:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=4363"},"modified":"2012-12-07T00:26:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T05:26:02","slug":"71-years-later-a-young-female-reporters-firsthand-account-of-pearl-harbor-is-published-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/12\/07\/71-years-later-a-young-female-reporters-firsthand-account-of-pearl-harbor-is-published-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"71 years later, a young female reporter&#8217;s firsthand account of Pearl Harbor is published for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>A really moving piece in today&#8217;s Washington Post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/honolulu-after-pearl-harbor-a-report-published-for-the-first-time-71-years-later\/2012\/12\/06\/e9029986-3d69-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hono\u00c2\u00adlulu after Pearl Harbor: A report published for the first time, 71 years later<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 7, 1941, Betty McIntosh was a young reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Later she worked for the CIA. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/thefold\/a-reporter-remembers-the-vision-of-death-at-pearl-harbor\/2012\/12\/05\/a91c939a-3f3e-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_video.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for an interview with the now 97-year old McIntosh. <\/p>\n<p>McIntosh wrote a first-person account about the days after the attack &#8212; a story largely about women and for women. Her editor decided not to publish it.<\/p>\n<p>From McIntosh&#8217;s exquisitely written unpublished piece, now finally printed by the Washington Post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I reported for work immediately on Sunday morning when the first news \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Oahu is being attacked \u00e2\u20ac\u201d crackled over the radio, sandwiched in a church program.<\/p>\n<p>Like the rest of Hawaii, I refused to believe it. All along the sunny road to town were people just coming out of church, dogs lazy in the driveways, mynas in noisy convention.<\/p>\n<p>Then, from the neighborhood called Punchbowl, I saw a formation of black planes diving straight into the ocean off Pearl Harbor. The blue sky was punctured with anti-aircraft smoke puffs. Suddenly, there was a sharp whistling sound, almost over my shoulder, and below, down on School Street. I saw a rooftop fly into the air like a pasteboard movie set.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, I felt that numb terror that all of London has known for months. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are some grim images in the piece &#8212; of young lives cut short, of confusion and terror. It&#8217;s easy to see how an editor could balk at publishing something so raw.<\/p>\n<p>But it should have been printed, certainly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4374909701\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Like the rest of Hawaii, I refused to believe it. All along the sunny road to town were people just coming out of church, dogs lazy in the driveways, mynas in noisy convention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/12\/07\/71-years-later-a-young-female-reporters-firsthand-account-of-pearl-harbor-is-published-for-the-first-time\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[905,906],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-18n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}