The American Raj
John Gregory Dunne on how Pearl Harbor—and Hawaii, the frontier of American empire—has been an available metaphor for the Navy.
"That evening, a lieutenant on a nearby ship stood on deck and, by the light of the inferno consuming what was left of the Arizona, read a newspaper update of the attack. The lieutenant was Henry Williams, Jr." — the same boy who at age three inserted the first bolt into the Arizona's keel