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CarlS

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Tomorrow is the 7th of December, the 72nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, stunned virtually everyone in the United States military. Japan’s carrier-launched bombers found Pearl Harbor totally unprepared. President Franklin Roosevelt quickly addressed Congress to ask for a declaration of war as illustrated in this audio excerpt. Although he never mentioned Europe or the fact that Germany had not yet declared war on the United States, the Pearl Harbor attack allowed him to begin the larger intervention in the European war he had long wanted. Admiral Yamaoto's worst fears came true. Japan awoke the sleeping giant.

[video=youtube;CIt3_19yj4w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIt3_19yj4w[/video]
 
I was four years and one day old when that happened - too young to remember anything about it - but I remember VE Day and the Japanese surrender very vividly.
During the war years I knew something called "war" was going on because of all the army and air force activity, but didn't really understand it much until 1945.
 
Rocky said:
I was four years and one day old when that happened - too young to remember anything about it - but I remember VE Day and the Japanese surrender very vividly.
During the war years I knew something called "war" was going on because of all the army and air force activity, but didn't really understand it much until 1945.
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Rocky said:
I was four years and one day old when that happened - too young to remember anything about it - but I remember VE Day and the Japanese surrender very vividly.
During the war years I knew something called "war" was going on because of all the army and air force activity, but didn't really understand it much until 1945.
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I was born in 1944 and my first recollection of world events is the Berlin airlift. But since almost all of the adult males I knew served in WWII, I heard plenty about Pearl Harbor and the war while growing up.


DaveB said:
Remembered and never forgotten.

Did FDR ever give a bad speech? I don't think so. But that speech to Congress must have been one of his finest and most memorable.
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He was most certainly and excellent speaker and that was was one of his finest.
 

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