"A date that will live in Infamy"

A web site dedicated to Pearl Harbor

~Quotes from the novel~

• "And if I had one more night to live I'd want to spend it with you" -Evelyn
• "If I tell her not to come and she comes, than she loves me" -Rafe
• "Not anxious to die sir, anxious to matter" -Rafe
• "Churchill and Stain are asking me what I am asking you: how long is America going to pretend the world is not at war?" -FDR
• "But our people think Hitler and his Nazi thugs are Europe's problem" -FDR
• "We're building refrigerators while our enemies build bombs" -FDR
• "There is one place I can go to find warmth and that is to think of you" -Rafe
• "Every night I look into the sunset and draw the last ounce of Heat and send it from my heart to yours" -Evelyn
• "What do you get for winning?"-Evelyn    
• "respect" -Dori
• "A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war" -Yamamoto
• "Coming back from the dead wasn't all I expected but hey that's life" -Rafe
• "So this is what war looks like" -Evelyn
• "Attack by Japan considered Imminent"  -telegram from Washington
• "Yesterday December 7,1941 a date which will live in Infamy, The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the empire of Japan" -FDR
• "Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory" -FDR
• "This form of treachery shall never endanger us again" -FDR
• "We are facing a crisis greater than any of us could have imagined. We've been trained to think we are invincible, and now our proudest ships have been destroyed by an enemy we considered inferior" -FDR
• "Dose any one in this room think that victory is possible without facing danger?" -FDR
• "Now I wonder every hour of my life why God put me into this chair. But when I see defeat in the eyes of my countrymen I start to think that maybe he brought me down for times like these when we all need to be reminded who we truly are, that we will not give up or give in" -FDR
• "We may loose this battle but we're going to win this war you know how I know? Those two because they're rare in times like these, they step forward, there's nothing stronger that the heart of a volunteer" -Colonel Doolittle
• "From Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo we have been described as a nation of weaklings and playboys who hire British or Russian or Chinese solders to do our fighting for us. Let them repeat that now! Let them tell that to general McAurthur and his men. Let them tell that to the solders who today are hitting hard in the far waters of the Pacific. Let them tell that to the boys in the flying fortress'. Let them tell that to the marines." -FDR

    "When the action is over, and we look back, we understand more or less. This much is certain, before the Doolittle raid America knew nothing but defeat; after it nothing but victory. Japan realized for the first time that they could loose and began to pull back; America realized for the first time she could win and surged forward

It was a war that changed America Dori Miller was the first black American to be awarded the navy cross, but he would not be the last. And it was a war that changed the world. Before it, America could watch Hitler storm Europe and say it was a local problem, after it even a civil war as far off as Vietnam would seem to be an American problem. World War 2 began at Pearl Harbor, and 1177 men still lie entombed in the Arizona. America suffered but America grew stronger. It was not inevitable. The times tried the souls of Americans, and through the trials, America overcame" 

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