MrD had a scheduled day off today for a doctors appointment.. nothing drastic just his annual check up So when we got home we turned on the radio to listen to the President give his remarks to a joint session of Congresson on the bombing in Pearl Harbour
Yesterday was a day that began just as every day.. It began with Sunday hymns and Christmas trees, yet it became a day that would forever live on in American history. It was the day that the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service surprised the American Navy stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The attack happened without a declaration of war by Japan…with no warning and plunged the United States into World War II.
It was the day that 188 U.S. Aircraft were destroyed, all eight of the U.S. Battleships in the harbor were damaged, with four sunk, as well as other military ships or cruisers. The loss of life was staggering with over 2,000 Americans killed with hundreds wounded.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that the attack on Pearl Harbor, that Sunday morning, December 7, 1941 would be a date which would live in infamy…and asked for a declaration of war against Japan and with only one dissenting vote shortly after the speech Congress approved.
America is at war.. and the world will never be the same again
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