Pearl Harbor created the 'Greatest Generation.' Out of it came men like George H.W. Bush
Friday marks the 77th anniversary of the event that propelled the United States into World War II. The Japanese attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor of our countrymen in a single morning and brought President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Capitol Hill the next day to request — and secure — a declaration of war. and the world on Dec. 8, 1941, that “the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.” Almost overnight, these words united what had hitherto been a bitterly divided and largely pacifistic ...
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