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Today is the anniversary of one of the most devastating sneak attacks ever launched against the United States. National Geographic has a site dedicated to the memory of Pearl Harbor, featuring stories from survivors and relatives: Remembering Pearl Harbor. UPDATE at 12/7/08 11:18:03 am: Meanwhile, at the Grauniad, we find ...
An astounding gaffe from Barack Obama, who grew up in Hawaii but apparently never learned the history of the attack on Pearl Harbor: Obama Ignorance Watch. Throughout our history, America’s confronted constantly evolving danger, from the oppression of an empire, to the lawlessness of the frontier, from the bomb ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Pearl Harbor, Gaffes, History
Fox has an interesting article on the pervasive fear that gripped the islands of Hawaii in the days after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, at a time when war touched the personal lives of all Americans: Survivors Recall Living in Fear After Pearl Harbor Attack. HONOLULU ...
It’s the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and here’s a reminder of how the United States responded then, in a poster from the National Archives.