yeah but the dragons are still there
In 1996, retired navy diver Commander Edward C. Raymer brought a different aspect of the Pearl Harbor attack to print, one that came in the hours and days after the horrific attack. With the ships still burning, and the tragic scene of bodies floating in the oil-slicked harbor, men like Raymer were called in to do what seemed like the impossible at the time: clean up the harbor and attempt to rescue any survivors who were trapped in their ships. In the wake of the devastating attack, 2,403 Americans were dead, and Raymer and other Navy salvage divers were responsible for collecting remains from within the sunken ships. In his written account of the horrors after the Pearl Harbor attack, Raymer details what it was like not just as a salvage diver in the harbor waters, but as the commander responsible for the men tasked with cutting into the sunken hulks and bringing out the remains of the men who perished on their ships.
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Hours after Trump discusses walking back coronavirus measures, Johns Hopkins official warns of consequences
President Donald Trump expressed frustration during a White House media briefing Monday night about how shutting down public activities nationwide amid the coronavirus pandemic threatens to disrupt the U.S. economy. Hours later, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security sounded off on Twitter that curtailing the restrictions would be detrimental.
Tom Inglesby tweeted a long thread Monday night, which has been shared by thousands of people, highlighting how social distancing and other limitations have stopped the spread of COVID-19 in other countries. Inglesby is one of the doctors advising Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan every morning on his coronavirus task force.
“Anyone advising the end of social distancing now, needs to fully understand what the country will look like if we do that,” the health security director tweeted. “COVID would spread widely, rapidly, terribly, could kill potentially millions in the yr ahead with huge social and economic impact across the country.”
In an interview Tuesday, he said he felt he had to say something publicly given Trump’s comments and others from people who believe that social distancing orders should be lifted.
“I had been hearing and seeing various kinds of prominent voices and editorials and hearing people in and out of government talking about the near-term need to end social distancing so that the economy could get going again, and I have real serious concerns that if we do that soon, this epidemic will spread uncontrollably across this country, and in a way that would overwhelm our health care system,” he said. “So I wanted to just make that clear.”
About a week ago, the Trump administration recommended Americans halt almost all activities. On Sunday night, the president said: “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. At the end of the 15-day period, we will make a decision as to which way we want to go.”
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White supremacists encouraging their members to spread coronavirus to cops, Jews, FBI says
Racist extremist groups, including neo-Nazis and other white supremacists, are encouraging members who contract novel coronavirus disease to spread the contagion to cops and Jews, according to intelligence gathered by the FBI.
In an alert obtained by ABC News, the FBI’s New York office reports that "members of extremist groups are encouraging one another to spread the virus, if contracted, through bodily fluids and personal interactions."
The FBI alert, which went out on Thursday, told local police agencies that extremists want their followers to try to use spray bottles to spread bodily fluids to cops on the street. The extremists are also directing followers to spread the disease to Jews by going "any place they may be congregated, to include markets, political offices, businesses and places of worship."
The FBI declined to comment on the alert, but issued a statement saying: "FBI field offices routinely share information with their local law enforcement partners to assist in protecting the communities they serve. These products are intended to be informative in nature, and as such, they contain appropriate caveats to describe the confidence in the sourcing of information and the likelihood of the assessment. Additionally, when written at a local level, these products will note that the perspective offered may be limited to the field office’s area of responsibility."
"Anti-government folks in America love to target law enforcement as a symbol of America’s authority," said Don Mihalek, the executive vice president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association Foundation and an ABC News contributor. "It’s just sad that that's their focus at a time of crisis in the nation."
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