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December 7th, 1941
Posted by Bigfoot on December 7th, 2009
Sixty-eight years ago, the Japanese navy launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in the territory of Hawaii. Soon after learning of the attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan, calling that day “a date which will live in infamy“. America would soon enter World War II, allied with the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, and eventually defeat Japan and her allies Germany and Italy within four years.
On a personal note, during the 1990’s I travelled to Hawaii, being lucky enough to have a friend who lived there. The first thing I did after getting off the plane and renting a car, even before finding my friend’s house, was visit the Arizona Memorial. The ship has never been de-commissioned.
Here are a few tributes to that awful day:
From the Naval History and Heritage Command,
From Kim Priestap,
From Debbie Schlussel, and
From the Snooper Report.
