Massachusetts Exhibit Traces Events Before, After '41 Attack-- Part 1: "Underestimated the Japanese Terribly"

From the October 16, 2016, Chicago Tribune by Philip Marcelo, AP.

An exhibition commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack which drew the United States into World War II is opening at a private, non-profit museum west of Boston that is open to the public by appointment.

The exhibit, "Why We Still remember" is at the Museum of World War II and chronicles the mood in the U.S. and Japan leading up to and after December 7, 1941.

Themes include nationalism in Japan and  complacency in the United States.

"We underestimated the Japanese terribly.  Everyone was paying attention to Europe, no one was paying attention to Asia," said museum founder Kenneth Rendell.  "It explains a lot about why we were caught flat-footed.  That's the importance of learning from history."

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