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Sannwald was a special case--Harvard has not honored Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a graduate student who planned the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor. It is reasonable to assume that Yamamoto will never be memorialized here, no matter how much time passes. And it is important to note that those who wish to honor the Confederate war dead do not claim that these men were special cases--that their actions are somehow justified by extenuating circumstances. Their proposed memorial would imply the opposite conclusion--that there was nothing wrong with fighting for the Confederacy...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: No Memorial For Rebel Dead | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

Harvard didn't memoralize Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a Harvard graduate student, for his role in planning the World War II attack on Pearl Harbor--and neither should they memoralize Confederate soldiers in Memorial Church, members of the Harvard Black Law Student Association (HBLSA) said in a press release yesterday...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Debate Continues Over War Memorial | 12/7/1995 | See Source »

Call it a nexus, a linking of best-seller components: war, romance, treachery and the sort of cross-cultural trim that has Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, mastermind of the Pearl Harbor strike, spouting about American baseball. He hates the Yankees for their brute power and likes the adroit Cardinals because "they play the game more like we do." This used to be called sneaky, though Deford, a veteran sportswriter, scores one for international correctness when Yamamoto notes that Westerners use the term "element of surprise" when referring to their own wily tactics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tokyo Bombers | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

Impersonally though the tides of history may seem to flow, they now waited on one man, a remarkably squat and broad-shouldered man, no more than 5 ft. 3 in. tall. He had been born Isoroku Takano, the first name meaning 56, because that was the age at which his proud father had been presented with his sixth and last son. Later adopted, according to an old custom, into a richer family, he acquired a new name: Yamamoto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...imperial navy's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was still determined to do what he had failed to do at Pearl Harbor: draw the U.S. Pacific Fleet into a high- seas confrontation where he could destroy it. His strategy, which he hoped would win the war for Japan or at least open the way to California, was to seize the two tiny islands known as Midway. A lonely outpost 1,100 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor, this was the westernmost U.S. base now that Guam, Wake and the Philippines were lost. The U.S. Navy would have to defend Midway, Yamamoto figured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down but Not Out | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

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