For those who have forgotten:
At dawn on Sunday, December 7, 1941, naval aviation forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the United States Pacific Fleet center at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and other military targets. The goal of this attack was to sufficiently cripple the US Fleet so that Japan could then attack and capture the Phillipines and Indo-China and so secure access to the raw materials needed to maintain its position as a global military and economic power. This would enable Japan to further extend the empire to include Australia, New Zealand, and India (the ultimate boundaries planned for the so-called "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere"), and limit America's focus to the Pacific, should they enter the war against the Axis Powers.
This marks the 'Day that will live in infamy' and would result in America entering the Second World War. Many of our Fathers, Grandfathers & Greatgrandfathers were a part of a generation that single handedly changed the face of the world forever. I am supremely proud to say I have friends & family that served, and were decorated, in places called Tinian, Tarawa, Pelelieu, Remagen, and Burma, just to name a few.
I feel proud to say that we are, as a nation, continuing to fight the good fight against the powers of oppression throughout the world.
God bless America.