Mises Daily
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Lawrence W. Reed
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In casting for the almost three-hour epic, “Pearl Harbor,” Hollywood forgot seventeen-year-old Lawrence McCutcheon, a U.S. Navy seaman from Gridley, California. No character in the movie portrays McCutcheon, the first of 2,476 Americans killed on that fateful day, December 7, 1941. The young patriot was serving his country high up in the