Husband Kimmel was blamed for the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, his grandson is still fighting to clear his name. David Ray Griffin’s The New Pearl Harbor makes the case that 9/11 was orchestrated as a war trigger event, just like Pearl Harbor according to revisionist historians. The ‘back door to war’ theory—while not supported by most historians—states that U.S. Pres. Nearly 58 years after Japanese raiders caught U.S. forces by surprise at Pearl Harbor, a dispute over blame for the disaster is still raging. As a student of history, I was interested in seeing a later film of “Tora, Tora, Tora,” the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Devastation. Later, as the war drew to an end and new doubts were raised, President Truman shifted blame from Washington to the American people as a whole. In 1999, Sen. Joe Biden helped to sponsor a resolution to restore Kimmel and Short to their 1941 ranks. Kentuckian Husband E. Kimmel, of Henderson, was a four star admiral in the U.S. Navy and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. -- Seventy-two years after Rear Adm. It brought back some personal memories of that day of Dec. 7, 1941. Tensions were soaring and they did not prepare the country to repel or properly defend against an attack that was almost destined to happen. Although it was not predicted to hit so close to home, the Government could have prepared the army and navy to be able to respond to any kind of threat. Now, President Clinton is being asked to intervene. In February 1941, Adm. Kimmel took over for Adm. James Richardson as the Commander-in-Chief of the US Pacific Fleet. Franklin D. Roosevelt provoked the Japanese military to attack the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which led to American involvement in World War II. “After Pearl Harbor,” he wrote, “the officials in the Division had secretly removed from official documents any and all incriminating evidence which would place blame on those responsible for the misguided advice given to the Secretary of State Cordell Hull and President Roosevelt which led to the disaster at Pearl Harbor.” JACKSON, Miss. “After Pearl Harbor,” he wrote, “the officials in the Division had secretly removed from official documents any and all incriminating evidence which would place blame on those responsible for the misguided advice given to the Secretary of State Cordell Hull and President Roosevelt which led to the disaster at Pearl Harbor.” But I’m afraid it may well have been. Joanna Andreasson.