Click2Flicks - Snow Falling on Cedars - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b><i>SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS</i></p> <p>1942-1945</p></b></font>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="snow_falling_ch2.htm">2. NO-WARNING TALKS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="snow_falling_ch3.htm">3. DEVASTATION AT PEARL HARBOR</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="snow_falling_ch4.htm">4. THE <i>USS ARIZONA</i>: AMERICANS RALLY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="snow_falling_ch5.htm">5. FDR ACTS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="snow_falling_ch6.htm">6. INTERNMENT CAMPS FOR AMERICANS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="snow_falling_ch7.htm">7. IT'S CONSTITUTIONAL?!?!?!</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="snow_falling_ch8.htm">8. THE BOMB</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="snow_falling_ch9.htm">9. FINAL DETAILS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="snow_falling_ch10.htm">10. HIROSHIMA</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="snow_falling_ch11.htm">11. NAGASAKI</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="snow_falling_ch12.htm">12. JAPAN SURRENDERS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="snow_falling_ch13.htm">13. AMERICA APOLOGIZES TO HER CITIZENS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="snow_falling_ch14.htm">14. SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">"Probably in all our history<br> No foe has been so detested<br> As were the Japanese</i>."<br> <br> Allan Navins<br> <i>"While You Were Gone"<br></i> 1946</font></b></p></blockquote></center> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Lt. Kermit Tyler was wrong about the readings. At 7:15 a.m. Hawaii time, when the Opana radar operator reported</p> <align="justify"><blockquote><b><i><font face="Times New Roman">"a larger number of planes than he had seen before on his scope,"</blockquote></p></i></b></font> <p>Tyler <a href="http://metalab.unc.edu/pha/myths/tyler_1.html" target="_blank"><b>thought</b></a> the planes were American </p> <blockquote><i><b><center><font face="Times New Roman">"B-17's en route to the Islands from the mainland</a>." </p></center> <p><center>"Thanks for calling in the report,"</blockquote></i></b></center></font></p> <p>was the only response Tyler made to the call as <a href="http://www.execpc.com/~dschaaf/routex.html" target="_blank"><b>183</b> </a> Japanese airplanes flew closer to "<a href="http://www.commpro.com/navy/jpg/4_1b.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Battleship Row</b></a>" that Sunday morning. The first wave of the attack on <a href="http://www.execpc.com/~dschaaf/bshipro2.html" target="_blank"><b>Pearl Harbor</b></a> was forty minutes away. </font></p> </div> <p align="right"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><a href="snow_falling_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>