So Help Us God John LeBoutillier Tuesday, June 15, 2004 On Dec. 8, 1941 – the day after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor – President Franklin D. Roosevelt made his "Day of Infamy" speech to the Congress to declare war on Japan and Germany. The penultimate sentence of this historic speech was: "With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph – so help us God." Two weeks ago this nation celebrated the long-overdue opening in Washington of the World War II Memorial. Over 200,000 WWII vets journeyed...