Thursday, December 8, 2011

Monday following December 7,1941

We went to school Monday morning, recognizing that our lives  had changed forever.  Some students were still unaware of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and of course none of us  -- and no Americans -- knew for a long time about the extent of the damage and how it came about.

We filed into our home rooms and awaited the radio broadcast of the joint session of Congress.  We heard  President Roosevelt and his speech of  "a day that will live in infamy;"  Congress, with one dissenting vote, declared war not only against Japan but against Germany and all her allies.We were at war.

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