A Beat By Beat Breakdown of Pearl Harbor

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Those who woke up in Oahu, Hawaii on December 7th, 1941, had no idea they were about to experience one of the darkest days in modern military history.

Over 2,400 Americans perished in the attack where air raid sirens blared, Japanese bombers filled the sky, and every second counted.

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  5. Actually, Rankin was first elected to Congress back in 1917. It was then that she voted against the declaration of war with Germany. In 1941, she abstained from voting on the declaration of war with Japan. The only two times she was a congresswoman the U.S. went to war.

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  6. And to think that this was the second of three attacks the US endured from foreign forces: the burning of the capitol in the War of 1812 being first and the 9/11 attacks third.

    My late grandpa served in the Navy in WW2. He served on the carrier USS Randolph but, thankfully, was among the off-shore ships. But he lost a lot of good friends in that attack. Didn't improve his opinion of the Japanese and only got worse when a kamikaze struck his ship a couple years into the war.

    Though I think if there was one group he hated more was the chain of command and especially the politicians calling the shots; Roosevelt in particular. About the nicest thing grandpa had to say about him was that Roosevelt was an 'aristocratic asshole'.

    I just hope I don't live long enough to see two national tragedies like my grandpa did with Pearl Harbor and 9/11.

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  7. It's well known that the US knew the attack was coming. Roosevelt used it in order to get into the war. It was an excuse for citizens to resort to austere lifestyles, and there's big money to be made in the war machine. He needed this war to finally drag the country out of the depression, that he had prolonged with his policies.

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  17. I'm curious to how long Jeannette Rankin remained in office after her decision to vote "no." Also, I wonder how much of an impact her decision made on the advancement of women being voted into public office.

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  18. Fleet Problem 13 next !!! The demonstration of the aircraft carrier as an offensive platform, to the consternation of the stolid US admirals who were stuck in the age of big battleships.

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