Wednesday, December 07, 2011

December 7, 1941

President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it a date which will live in infamy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ScDXwYjWA&feature=related

*The Presidential Address to Congress of December 8, 1941 was delivered at 12:30 p.m. that day to a Joint Session of Congress by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, one day after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii. The name derives from the first line of the speech: Roosevelt describing the previous day as "a date which will live in infamy".

Within an hour of the speech, Congress passed a formal declaration of war against Japan and officially brought the U.S. into World War II.

Remember Pearl Harbor!

Enough said.


* Thanks, Wikipedia.

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