Posted on 12/07/2016 3:00:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
Seventy-five years ago on Dec. 7, shortly before 8 a.m., hundreds of Japanese aircraft dove from the sky in a surprise bombing attack on a United States naval base in Hawaii, killing more than 2,400 Americans.
The attack on Pearl Harbor shocked and outraged the nation and led it into war at a time when Congress and the American people had been split on the response to an already embattled world.
News articles from Dec. 8 reflected a sudden shift in the national mood. According to New York Times articles from Dec. 9 and 10, 1941, thousands of men rushed to sign up to serve in the United States armed forces, pushing enlistment to new highs.
Congressional leaders debated whether to declare war, not only on Japan but also on the Axis powers including Germany and Italy.
Sam Rayburn, who became the longest-serving speaker in the history of the House, was asked that day whether Congress would support war. “I think that is one thing on which there would be unity,” he was quoted as saying in The Times.
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Only one Representative voted NO, to go to war with Japan. Wonder how many would vote NO today.
If only the truth were more widely known about 12/7/1941. Just sayin’.
Which is?
That one who voted “No” was the same one that voted “No” on the US entry into the Great War.
I used to have a copy of a book titled ‘Day of Deceit’ which pretty much laid out the screw ups that were made. There is a quick summary at amazon here:
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743201299/interesting-20
Believable? I think so, but does anyone other than those involved know the “truth”? And even then it was probably compartmentalized.
No one has to climb far out on a limb to admit there were screw ups galore, however I have heard all the conspiracy theories and I find it highly unlikely that FDR allowed the attack to happen.
Truth was, the Japanese STARTED something and unleashed
literal HELL on themselves in the form of the most terrible
weapons at Hiroshima & Nagasaki ever seen in any warfare.
They had awakened a sleeping giant, indeed. TRUMAN, unlike
the Democrats of today, had the GUTS to use what he had at
his disposal & when he made the decision, did not look back
& had a good night’s sleep to boot. THOUSANDS more American
lives would have been lost if they’d had to invade Japan.
FANG’S cousin was on a ship on his way to Japan to invade.
They were told flatly that out of three of them, only one
would survive. My dad would have had to go eventually as
a battle hardened veteran. Even the Japanese civilians were
ordered to KILL AMERICANS with any weapon they had. There
are people who are geared to either be at your feet or at
your throat. I don’t want either option. JAPAN GOT WHAT
THEY ASKED FOR. I would likely not be here if Truman (D)
hadn’t had GUTS as I wasn’t born until 1946.
Who voted “NO”? What party?
As I recall that Representative was a Quaker.
Jeannette Rankin - Republican and pacifist.
People tend to forget that before Pearl Harbor, most conservative Americans and large parts of the Republican Party were isolationist and adamantly against entering the war on behest of the “Jews and British”. This sentiment was much more prevalent - also beyond the ‘America First’ movement - than the pushers of right-wing romantization of America’s role in WW2, Churchill and all things Jewish, would like to admit.
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I wouldn’t be here either as my grandfather was in Europe awaiting a boat to take him to Japan when the bombs were dropped. He survived Europe but would he have survived Japan?
Do you know who it was?
See #13
thank you
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