{"id":5414,"date":"2014-12-07T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T16:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5414"},"modified":"2014-12-07T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T16:37:15","slug":"vignette-pearl-harbor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=5414","title":{"rendered":"Vignette: Pearl Harbor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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USS Arizona ablaze in Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 [Public domain, wiki]<\/p><\/div>“A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY.”<\/p>\n

Today, Sunday 7 December 2014 is Pearl Harbor Day<\/em>—a time to remember those who died exactly seventy-three\u00a0years ago and to remember the dramatic event that triggered the entry of the United States into World War II.<\/p>\n

“A date which will live in infamy,” Roosevelt called it in his speech to Congress.<\/p>\n

None of the US carriers were at Pearl on that fateful Sunday, but the loss to the USA of its Pacific-based\u00a0battleships was a bitter blow. The road to victory would be long and hard fought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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