December 7, 1941 and December 7, 1931, remembering Pearl Harbor and "Nagato"

My grandparents would never talk of World War II until I insisted; their son, my uncle, had perished on the USS Arizona that day.  Decades later, it was too painful for them.  As they told me, he was in his bunk that morning and was not recovered.  Of the personnel aboard the Arizona that day, there were 37 sets of brothers, of whom, 23 sets were killed.  In total, 77 of those brother sailors aboard the Arizona died that day.  I am confounded by the numbers, 23, 37 and 77, about which I've written extensively.  I've not been successful in confirming my uncle's name, Carl F. Shuler, on listings of the 77 dead but I recall my grandparents, while they were still able, making several annual trips to Hawaii to visit the Arizona.  Of the more that 2,400 persons who died that day, 1,177 were aboard the Arizona. (Source of these statistic can be found HERE).

My father served as a gunner on a battleship in the Pacific Theatre and saw action against Kamikaze pilots towards the end of the war.  He talked very little of the War, as I recall; only once in the my recollections of our time together did he recount his story of being a gunner.  My father-in-law was also aboard a Navy vessel and involved in the Pacific.  The one story he told myself and my brother-in-law (his younger son) was about his ship having been sunk by a mine and he was among a group of men clinging to enemy mines for several days until rescued.  I assume the stories are accurate but, aside from researching the Arizona, have not inquired.

Sad how events in the lives of real people become recollections... and then history and then debatable history... and then revisionist history and then...at some distant point, mythology to be awed or to be repudiated.  Did the Holocaust not occur as claimed by some?  Will the minority voices with an agenda cause real events to be considered, in another 100 years, doubtable mythology?

Do we find the date, December 7 in WD Gann's "The Tunnel Thru the Air?"  Indeed we do; page 349, the Battle of Detroit.  The Battle of Detroit was notable, unlike Pearl Harbor, in that it was the first great victory by the U.S. over the "Allied Enemy."  Quite a contrast, in 1941 the U.S. lost the battle of Pearl Harbor because the enemy was unknown where in TTTTA the U.S. had its first great victory against the already known enemy.

In 1941, the U.S. was allied with many other countries (the "Allies").  In the TTTTA the allies ("the Allied Enemy") were against the U.S.  Interesting.  There are many similarities and many complete contradictions or 'opposites' between what I consider Mr. Gann's explicit displays of foresight and the reality of events.  Detroit was the turning point of the fictional "Great War" against Japan and the Allied Enemy.  You may recall Pearl Harbor might be argued to be a turning point in the "Second Sino-Japense war" that began July 7, 1937 and ended September 9, 1945....Pearl Harbor, though a defeat for the U.S., awakened the sleeping giant as some believe Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto uttered from his flagship on December 7, 1941.  The U.S. could finally define its enemy in the Pacific.

We find on that fictional date, December 7, 1931, the curious General or Colonel Nagato who was the personification and leader of the "Allied Enemy" had ordered the attack on Detroit.  Curious because on page 339, his first appearance in TTTTA, we find him to be "General Nagato."  On the next page, page 340, he becomes "Colonel Nagato," a rank demotion... or an error.  From then forward, he is promoted again to "General Nagato."

The keel of the dreadnought class or battleship class Nagato was laid on August 28, 1917.  The Nagato class battleship carried 16.1 inch guns, not to be exceeded until the Yamamoto class of ships introduced in 1937.  Soon after its 1920 maiden voyage, the "Nagato" was promoted and became the flagship of Rear Admiral Soeiro Tochinai.  Demoted and placed in reserve and re-armoured in 1933, she returned to service and saw limited duty in the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1936.  In 1941, the Nagato was once again promoted to the status of a flagship of the Japanese fleet commanded by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.

On December 2, 1941, from the Nagato anchored in Hashirajim, Admiral Yamamoto gave the order to the 1st Air Fleet "Niitaka yama nobler" or "climb Mount Mitaka," the code to commence the attack plan on Pearl Harbor.  It is said that, on December 7, 1941, Admiral Yamamto heard the words "Tora, Tora, Tora," and, less reliably sourced, said "We have awakened a sleeping giant,".... presumably on his flagship, the Nagato, off the coast of Pearl Harbor.  WWII was the third prophecy of WD Gann as I perceive my enumeration of his seven prophecies.  The story of the Nagato is a fraction of the evidence of Mr. Gann's the third prophecy.

Pearl Harbor was the second largest homeland attack on the United States in history; a surprise attack. The 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center is the largest attack on the homeland taking 2,996 persons; a surprise attack.  On December 8, 1941, the U.S. Congress voted and declared war on Japan.  On September 12, 2001, Senator Tom Daschle stood before Congress and declared the nation united against an enemy... he did not identify the enemy nor did Congress declare war.  Senator Daschle did utter the prideful declaration of Isaiah 9:10-11 (see HERE, the thesis of Jonathan Cahn's "The Harbinger").  Even as late as last night, the ill defined enemy is apologetically considered to be a small group of extremists perverting a great and peaceful religion.  A small band of zealots, ostracized from their larger population of believers...or tolerated by their larger population...or sympathized with by their larger population?  Who is the enemy?  15 years after 9/11, the Congress has not declared a war or an enemy beyond a small group of extremists.   [I read with concern, and some skepticism, that of 132 Syrians granted immigration status to the U.S. since the Paris attacks of November, 132 were Muslim and 0 were Christian.  Could this be true?]

Quite a contrast, again.  A declaration of war is made the day after the second largest attack on the U.S. homeland in 1941.  In the wake of the largest attack on the U.S. homeland, such has not occurred some 15 years later.  Some would say, we don't even know the enemy.

And what happened to "Nagato?"  Following the fictional Battles of New York and Washington, we do not hear anything regarding the fictional General Nagato.  Following WWII, the damaged ship Nagaoto was towed to the Bikini atoll to become a twice hit target in the experimental atomic explosions in Operation Crossroads.  Since 1996 it has been a popular scuba diving reef.

Real events behind ourselves and our ancestors become memories, memories become history, history becomes revisionist or lost, and, ultimately, it is all demoted to myth worthy of scholarly study.  Some, I would offer, foresee the events in the future that will someday become history and myth.

Did Mr. Gann?

Jim Ross

[I just realized after publishing the above.  I first wrote about the Nagato one year ago on December 7, 2014 on this blog.  I was then so superficially into TTTTA that I did not understand there are 4 t's in the title of the book and referred to it as "TTTA."  I 'think' one year ago, when pondering Pearl Harbor, was when I first recognized its importance and indication of foresight.]