Quoting Steve Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 08:20, Jacob Albretsen wrote: > > "When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the temple was one of the > targets and > > the bomber couldn't see it and..... now he's a member of the church." > > Actually, I think I saw this one in the Church News, so apparently its > documented. I'd look it up before quoting that, though.
I've read so many versions of this story that say how it happened it would make your head spin. Doing a search on google: "...reminds me of one I heard regarding the Japanese trying to attack the Laie temple. This must be documented somewhere else. It seems that during the attack on Pearl Harbor one Japanese pilot noticed the Laie temple, and thought it to be some important government building. As he dived in to bomb it, all of a sudden his bomb release wouldn't work. He took another pass to try to shoot it, but his guns weren't working. As he turned around in order to make a kamikaze attempt, his controls stopped working, and he was well out to sea before he regained control." or "...told me once that he had heard an apostle say that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor only as a second choice, and their original target was the LDS temple in Laie. However, as they approached it to blow it to smithereens, it miraculously disappeared from view, so they went on to blow up Pearl Harbor. No reason was given for why the Japanese would even care about the temple, let alone want to blow it up, but the implication was that somehow the Japanese knew of the building's importance and saw its destruction as a way of somehow thwarting future missionary efforts in Japan." Using your head on these pretty much puts them to shame. The original target was the Temple? Give me a break. I've yet to find _ACTUAL_ documentation. There was a church article at one time about Mormon Folklore a while back, but I can't find a copy right now. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
