...an observation or two, and then some 'little known' bits of information(on something like this, I refuse to call it 'trivia'....
I've known two men who were at Pearl Harbor, one briefly and one a little more extensively....the second just passed away a year ago...he was a young boy from Belle Plaine ,Kansas, just out of high school, when his boat was hit...he was in the water for hours before being rescued...he talked to our students about 10 years ago, and when asked, said a day NEVER goes by without thinking of that moment.
http://www.kansas.com/news/article1104234.html
A few items...
*Eleanor addressed the country on the day it happened, but not her husband...
* Cordell Hull emphatically suggested that FDR lay out ALL of Japan's 'sins'...FDR opted for 5 minutes
*The most famous word in the speech...'infamy'....was not in the original draft...and yet it captures the magnitude...
*FDR ALLEDGEDLY rode to the speech in Al Capone's confiscated car...
Blessings and thanks to those YOUNG men who waded into a hell fire war on our behalf...
I've known two men who were at Pearl Harbor, one briefly and one a little more extensively....the second just passed away a year ago...he was a young boy from Belle Plaine ,Kansas, just out of high school, when his boat was hit...he was in the water for hours before being rescued...he talked to our students about 10 years ago, and when asked, said a day NEVER goes by without thinking of that moment.
http://www.kansas.com/news/article1104234.html
A few items...
*Eleanor addressed the country on the day it happened, but not her husband...
* Cordell Hull emphatically suggested that FDR lay out ALL of Japan's 'sins'...FDR opted for 5 minutes
*The most famous word in the speech...'infamy'....was not in the original draft...and yet it captures the magnitude...
*FDR ALLEDGEDLY rode to the speech in Al Capone's confiscated car...
Blessings and thanks to those YOUNG men who waded into a hell fire war on our behalf...
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