Sink ships, get Scotch: An officer’s spirited revenge for Pearl Harbor

Sink ships, get Scotch: An officer’s spirited revenge for Pearl Harbor

“December 7th 1941 was a watershed in the lives of nearly everyone in Hawaii,” wrote Wilfred J. “Jasper” Holmes in his memoir, “Double-Edged Secrets.”“Monday dawned on a different world with different problems, different objectives, and different schedules, differently oriented than before Sunday’s sunrise.”For Holmes, who had been medically retired from the Navy in 1936 before being recalled to active duty in June 1941 as a lieutenant and assig…