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At the time, it took a little while for "breaking news" to encircle the globe. Unsurprisingly, though, Hawaii addressed it in a timely fashion, in an "extra" edition of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, on Monday, December 7 itself: The sub-heading reads, "SIX KNOWN DEAD." There would turn out to be more than 2,300 dead U.S.… Continue reading December 7, 1941: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks the United States Congress to declare that a state of war now exists between the United States of America and the Japanese Empire: https://youtu.be/lK8gYGg0dkE On this eightieth anniversary, then U.S. Navy Seaman 1st Class David Russell, now 101 years old, revisits Pearl Harbor for the service commemorating those who… Continue reading December 7, 1941: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan--President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, December 8, 1941 My dad, who fought in WWII, was a great raconteur. He told stories well, entertainingly, and usually with… Continue reading The Soldier’s Deck of Cards