Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 12/07/2025 7:03:32 AM PST by logi_cal869
Not a fan of fdr, but a historic speech.
See both audio & video at link.
More info in Comment #1 (text of speech and history of revisions).
Remember...
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2001/winter/crafting-day-of-infamy-speech.html
Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941)
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/joint-address-to-congress-declaration-of-war-against-japan
Clickable:
FDR’s “Day of Infamy” Speech
Crafting a Call to Arms
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2001/winter/crafting-day-of-infamy-speech.html
Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941)
FDR made the world safe for communism and infested our government with commies. And we’re still paying the price today.
Rumble version in color to avoid using YouTube
President Franklin D. Roosevelt makes his famous speech after the Japanese Empire attack on Pearl Harbor
https://rumble.com/v5x9n2n-pearl-harbor-a-date-which-will-live-in-infamy-fdr-speech-colorized.html
Never forget
The ending words to Roosvelt’s speech was “so help us God!”
Modern versions of the speech, at least in the movies, leave that part out, or at least the word “God.”
WW2 paved the way for Operation Paperclip and Operation Mockingbird.
Very impressive speech, only four minutes long. Full of righteous anger and resolve.
On December 7, Dec. 8 where he was, my dad’s ship was in a bad part of the world (Tarakan, Borneo) and received this dispatch-—”JAPAN STARTED HOSTILITIES; GOVERN YOURSELVES ACCORDINGLY”.
Yep.
The Winds of War - Episode 7
“And if we don’t shoot first, we may not get a chance to shoot!”
https://youtu.be/OSfX61yWSwc?t=3439
FDR did not declare war against Japan.
The ending words to Roosvelt’s speech was “so help us God!”
Modern versions of the speech, at least in the movies, leave that part out, or at least the word “God.”
><
That’s right and it’s disgusting.
The day of the D-Day Invasion, FDR read a prayer on the radio.
FDR did not declare war against Japan.
War is the solution our opponents have chosen. I say we give them all they want. Willian T. Sherman
“Never forget’’.
And never forgive.
An uncle of mine was getting ready to celebrate his eighteenth birthday when the news came just about noon EST.
Next day he went to the US Navy recruitment center on Ferry St. in Newark, NJ.
He spent the war in The Shore Patrol.
Indeed
Hitler thought he could beat us. He thought wrong.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.