OK, this is the easiest question of the evening.
Is there anyone here have to eliminate some people?
I've already mentioned this to Mary Carter.
I've always talked to you about this.
And I know she knows who this is.
Who is Husband E. Kimmel?
You get the prize after out there in the hall,
after the reading.
Husband E. Kimmel.
No one?
Let me read the poem, and then you'll remember.
This is a poem about Pearl Harbor.
Ring any bells?
Just blurted out.
Yeah.
I see a hand.
Who was he?
[INAUDIBLE]
[LAUGHTER]
I take it you're a history major.
Any case, to the poem.
There is a problem in the poem.
It ends on the word dreams.
And dreams is one of those buzz words.
I can't, for the life of me, figure out a different word.
But I think the rest of the poem is OK.
"Husband E. Kimmel."
"For all it's worth, this river might
have fallen out of the sky to lie a denser
oxygen upon the land.
The few [INAUDIBLE] among the fields of pineapple and deliver
not water but the multiple figures
that children cut out a folded paper on Saturday afternoons.
Sugar cubes to the final comment of the harbor.
Did I spend the night with a Japanese lady?
Did my wife later insist while the seamen's wives
scowled that all her luggage be loaded on the clipper ship?
Of course not.
I did what was right.
While every day the PBYs went out,
their intelligent pilots lulling over the ocean for 16 hours,
to come back and next day to it all again.
Every day, we could see the submarines
out there eyeing us, the children haunting us
from bad marriages.
Nevertheless, I still believed that women
were sent by God to bring men back to righteousness.
I still believe that if I'd had enough to explore with,
if the people who knew better had
sent the message they should have sent,
I'd have put the fleet to sea.
The men running up the ladders to save themselves, to save us
from where they lay--
on Sunday morning, entombed in their dreams."
Second chance.
Who is Husband E. Kimmel?
[INAUDIBLE]
You win.
Yours is-- yours is the future is not what it was meant to be
or something.
He was Admiral Kimmel.
It's a very complicated story.
But interesting one and revealing one.