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Recently, the ABA Journal published its picks for the Best Legal Blogs of 2018 Originally recorded by Mississippi John Hurt, it was covered in the 1960s by Maria Muldaur and the Jim Kweskin Jug Band. I havent been able to find a live clip of the song from the 60s, but here is a performance from 2015, with Muldaur, Kweskin, and John Sebastian of Today marks the 77th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, one of history’s most famous events. On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the American naval and air facilities at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Striking without warning (and before Tokyo’s issuance of a formal declaration of war), the Japanese military caught the U.S. Army and Navy completely off guard. In a span of less than two hours, Japanese fighters, bombers and submarines killed 2,400 American service members (as well as 49 civilians) and sank or severely damaged a dozen American warships, including the battleships Arizona Without question, the Pearl Harbor attack was one of the most brilliant and sophisticated tactical operations in military history. To achieve surprise, the Japanese Navy had secretly moved six carrier battle groups across 4,000 miles of ocean in heavy winter seas to reach the waters off Hawaii. During the long dangerous voyage across the Pacific, the Japanese warships never broke radio silence. After the attack, the Japanese fleet left Hawaii almost unscathed, having lost only 100 sailors and pilots. Few navies in history could have pulled off such a skillful feat as the Pearl Harbor operation.    But Pearl Harbor ultimately proved to be a strategic disaster of truly epic proportions for Japan. In the years that followed the attack, the United States went on a war footing that vastly exceeded Japan’s ability to match. Even before the Japanese planes returned to their carriers, Tokyo’s unconditional surrender became America’s central war aim in the Pacific theater. As Professor Gerhard Weinberg