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Explain the hysteria on San Piedro Island when the news of the Pearl Harbor attack is announced.

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The local people fear that they, too, will be attacked by the Japanese, since they, too, are on the Pacific Ocean and right on the coast. Many people in the US feared an attack, since it was such a shock, and the tactics and plans of the Japanese military were entirely unknown.