Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem
1941 Pearl Harbor Radar Station
This is from an Obituary in The Columbus Dispatch, February 25, 2010:
Officer mistook radar warning of Pearl Harbor raid -
"Don't worry about it."
Those words, which he uttered on a peaceful Sunday morning in 1941 on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, would haunt Kermit A. Tyler for the rest of his life.
Tyler was the Army Air Forces' first lieutenant on temporary duty at Fort Shafter's radar information center on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when a radar operator on the northern tip of the island reported that he and another private were seeing an unusually large "blip" on their radar screen, indicating a large number of aircraft about 132 miles away and fast approaching.
"Don't worry about it," Tyler told the radar operator, thinking it was a flight of U.S. B-17 bombers that was due in from the mainland.
Instead, the blip on the radar screen was the first wave of more than 180 Japanese fighters, torpedo bombers, dive bombers and horizontal bombers whose surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the island's main airfields shortly before 8 a.m. plunged the United States into World War II.
In Tyler's case, it was an honest error, but even a simple error can have disastrous results.
As believers, we are called to be "A Watchman on the Wall" with regard to our work, our culture, and our interpersonal relationships. This can cause immense hardship, because, more often than not, your message will NOT be received with joy. Nevertheless, it will not be on your head if you are truthful. And if your warning IS received and heeded, Imagine the joy in Heaven over the life you have touched!
Come and Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem, For Our FRiends in Need, For Persecuted Believers, and For Our Beloved Nation.
Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.
This Symbol Represents Christians in The Middle East, who desperately need our Prayers.
Hallelujah and Amen
ML/LTOS
