“A date which will live in infamy”

“A date which will live in infamy”. On this day December 7, 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave this famous speech that put the United States in yet another World War. This speech is what would launch the most powerful nation in the world into war against Japan, and later Germany and Italy. It is on this day that the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The base was attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four being sunk. All but two of the eight were raised, repaired and returned to service later in the war. It is events like these that not only shape who we are as a country, but also who we are as a people. To be able to take a shot in the chin and not fall, but unite and stand as one against a great enemy and come out victorious. America is and will always be the greatest country in the world!