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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Chris on December 07, 2008, 11:12:39 AM
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The Year was 1941 and it opened with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s famous Four Freedoms Speech. In this State of the Union address, the president told Congress and the country that “the future and the safety of our country and of our democracy are overwhelmingly involved in events far beyond our borders.” Following World War I, the U.S. had reverted to isolationism, with the majority of the public not favoring involvement in foreign disputes, but the tide was slowly turning as many Americans began to ponder the impact of Axis victories in Asia and Europe and wonder about the extent of their ambitions.
The Four Freedoms Speech would inspire Norman Rockwell to create four paintings depicting these freedoms, which would later be used as posters to help sell war bonds.
In March, Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act into law, which allowed the U.S. “To manufacture in arsenals, factories, and shipyards under their jurisdiction, or otherwise procure. . . any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.” This made the way for the shipment of much-needed supplies to Allies like Great Britain and Russia, including food, aircraft, ships and land vehicles. In a press conference, Roosevelt compared the program to lending a neighbor whose house was on fire a garden hose to help extinguish the flames, saying that he wouldn’t want to charge that neighbor for the hose, but rather, he would just like the hose returned when the fire was out.
The year would end with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declaring war on Japan and Germany.
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I strongly recommend the USS Arizona memorial for everyone who makes to Hawaii.
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My mother and father were both in the Navy...my mother before my dad....both were stationed in Hawaii during the War. My mother went there in early '42...she was a nurse (Lt) and spent the years of the War taking care of burn victims. My dad spent some time trying to recover victims from the Arizona.
Soon there will only be those left who heard from the radio or from their parents, what happened on December 7,1941.
We must always strive to remember "the day that will go down in infamy"....... lest we again suffer the results of having forgotten.......
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The important lessons of the 1930's went down the memory hole by 1970. And tyranny seems to have lots of friends. Jimmy Carter for example...
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Today on this very Sunday, 67 years ago, Pearl Harbor was attacked. A day that will live in infamy.
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It's "A date that will live in infamy" :hammer: