Listen to President Franklin D. Roosedvelt and Congress……. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrpearlharbor.htm Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of [...]

December 07, 2008   by Richard Olivastro It was early morning, Thursday, Dec. 4, 1941, when senior radio operator Ralph Briggs came on duty to his post at the U.S. Navy shortwave monitoring station in Maryland. The radio crackled as he tuned his receiver to a specific station in order to begin daily monitoring of [...]

Dec 6, 2011 Pat Buchanan On Dec. 8, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt took the rostrum before a joint session of Congress to ask for a declaration of war on Japan. A day earlier, at dawn, carrier-based Japanese aircraft had launched a sneak attack devastating the U.S. battle fleet at Pearl Harbor. Said ex-President Herbert Hoover, Republican [...]

Nov 29, 2011 Three days before the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt was warned in a memo from naval intelligence that Tokyo’s military and spy network was focused on Hawaii, a new and eerie reminder of FDR’s failure to act on a basket load of tips that war was near. [...]

Today is the 67th anniversary of D-Day.  In the early morning hours tens of thousands of American and allied troops landed in Normandy France to begin the liberation of Europe from the Nazis.  On this one day, in this one battle alone, almost 2500 Americans died.  Most Americans today do not know or remember this. [...]

Shortly after the attack on December 7, 1941 and America’s entry in to the war, one of the first and the most classic World War Two patriotic songs was written by Don Reid and music by Reid and Sammy Kaye. The song, “Remember Pearl Harbor”; described as a “March with spirit”, was based on the [...]

Japan’s continued focus on remembering the bomb has been an understandable sore point for its Asian neighbors, who suffered greatly at its hands. Aug 6, 2010 By WARREN KOZAK For the first time since the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan 65 years ago, today the U.S. ambassador to Japan will attend the [...]

By Victor Davis Hanson (Archive) · Thursday, April 1, 2010 Sixty-five years ago, on April 1, 1945, the United States Marines, Army and Navy invaded Okinawa. The ensuing three months of combat resulted in the complete defeat and near destruction of imperial Japanese forces on the island just 340 miles from the mainland. The victory [...]

Feb 13, 2010 (CNN) — One of America’s top World War II fighter pilots, an African-American who took on Nazis abroad and racism at home, was laid to rest Friday at Arlington National Cemetery. Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Lee A. Archer, one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, died last month in New York at [...]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,791697,00.html Dec. 25, 1944 The snow lay white again upon the stony soil of New England, the grey distances of the plains, the towering Western mountains; once more poinsettias bloomed in the South’s red soil. In Boston’s fabled Louisburg Square, and in every other U.S. city and hamlet, carolers would sing this week below candlelit [...]