[lbryce]

A solemn day in our history. Sneak attack by the Imperial Navy of Japan on Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt's speech reverberates down through history as indeed a date which forever lives in infamy as will September 11, 2001.

[caver]

As much as I dislike FDR, he did pull the country together. Can you imagine what would happen with a similar event today with Obama in the White House? We would all be speaking Japanese or German.

[left that other site]

I had the honor of providing the music for the 55th reunion of a local chapter of Pearl Harbor Survivors.

What a wonderful bunch of guys.

And yes, even 55 years later, there was not a single Mitsubishi or Toyota in the parking lot.
:-)

[TonyInOhio]

One of the most compelling broadcasts of the day came from a reporter with KGU Radio in Honolulu. You can hear the excitement and a tinge of fear in his voice as he reports to NBC via telephone. Visit the Internet Archive to hear the broadcast.

[jamaksin]

The last paragraph is:

"I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, Dec. 7, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.

The "unprovoked" element has long been at issue.

See, for example, "Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor, by Edward S. Miller. (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59114-520-2.)

Or, from a July 3, 1944 speech given in London, by British Minister of War Production, Oliver Lyttelton: "Japan was provoked into attacking the Americans at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty on history ever to say that America was forced into the war. Everyone knows where American sympathies were. It is incorrect to say that America was ever truly neutral even before America came into the war."

So it goes - this history thing, especially for Americans on this National Day of mourning.

[Vaduz]

Wonder how many government buildings will have flag at half staff today?.

[PghBaldy]

Here are links to the first radio reports (several to choose from) I listening to one now. http://library.umkc.edu/spec-col/ww2/pearlharbor/ph-txt.htm

[jan in Colorado]

ping

[NavyCanDo]

Compare how the two most popular search engines honor the day.

First Google. (Nothing, zilch, nada, zero)

www.google.com

Now BING (Wow!, breathless photo of Battleship Roll)

www.bing.com

[manc]

will president bozo be there?

[GonzoII]

BTTT!