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How to Prepare Yourself for Battle August 19 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. - Peter 5:8 A Japanese attack on Hawaii is regarded as the most unlikely thing in the world, with one chance in a million of being successful. Besides having more powerful defenses than any other post under the American flag, it is protected by distance. —Journalist Clarke Beach, September 6, 1941 Looking back on history, these words must be considered some of the most foolish ever written. Yet they go to show simply how unaware many people in the United States were about the possibility for the kind of attack carried out by the Japanese just two months later. For many, it seemed next to impossible that such a thing could ever happen. | 
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