Air Raid on Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the
United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Territory, killing more than 2,300 Americans. The
U.S.S. Arizona was completely destroyed and the
U.S.S. Oklahoma capsized. A total of twelve ships
sank or were beached in the attack and nine
additional vessels were damaged. More than 160
aircraft were destroyed and more than 150 others
damaged.
A hurried dispatch from the ranking United States
naval officer in Pearl Harbor, Commander in Chief
Pacific, to all major navy commands and fleet units
provided the first official word of the attack at the ill-
prepared Pearl Harbor base. It said simply: AIR RAID
ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT DRILL.

The following day President Franklin Roosevelt,
addressing a joint session of Congress, called
December 7 "a date which will live in infamy."
Declaring war against Japan, Congress ushered the
United States into World War II and forced a nation,
already close to war, to abandon isolationism. Within
days, Japan's allies, Germany and Italy, declared war
on the United States, and the country began a rapid
transition to a wartime economy in building up
armaments in support of military campaigns in the
Pacific, North Africa, and Europe.
Also on the day following Pearl Harbor, Alan Lomax,
head of the Library of Congress Archive of American
Folk Song, sent a telegram to colleagues around the
U.S. asking them to collect people's immediate
reactions to the bombing. Over the next few days
prominent folklorists such as John Lomax, John
Henry Faulk, Charles Todd, Robert Sonkin, and Lewis
Jones responded by recording "man on the street"
interviews in New York, North Carolina, Texas,
Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. They interviewed
salesmen, electricians, janitors, oilmen, cabdrivers,
housewives, students, soldiers, physicians, and
others regarding the events of December 7. Among
the interviewees was a California woman then visiting
her family in Dallas, Texas.
"My first thought was what a great pity that… another
nation should be added to those aggressors who
strove to limit our freedom. I find myself at the age
of eighty, an old woman, hanging on to the tail of the
world, trying to keep up. I do not want the driver's
seat. But the eternal verities--there are certain things
that I wish to express: one thing that I am very sure
of is that hatred is death, but love is light. I want to
contribute to the civilization of the world but…when I
look at the holocaust that is going on in the world
today, I'm almost ready to let go…"


SOURCE: memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec07.html

MORAL:

I watched this event on a movie back then

"History is written by the victors" Winston Churchill

"December 7 --the Day that we American's Celebrate baiting Japan to 'sneak attack' us.

Most Americans still seem to think that Japan attacked us without warning, on a sunny day while we were just whistling in the garden, totally innocent.The reality is that we already were at war with Japan. We already were fighting.

Another reality -- an inescapable truth -- is that newspapers were already publishing headlines that a Japanese attack was coming. So the newspapers knew it was coming, but the President and the military were caught off guard... Sounds a little suspicious, eh?

And yet during my childhood, we were taught that America was just being its good old self, not a care in the world, and those nasty 'Jap bastards' attacked us without cause or provocation.

It is all a lie. I am sick of lies. My ears are still ringing from gunshots caused by lies. But to say this is to be called a revisionist.

We baited Japan to attack us. That is the reality." Michael Yon


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7g1qrkAEzA

On American forums do you see Americans talking about "remember the Biafran war"? Worse things are going on in Africa in the past 20 years why are not worried about our fellow brothers and sisters on the continent.

It is important to know world history but you should care for your own people first.