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Jack Crawford, WWII Veteran
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Roosevelt, at the time of Pearl Harbor, could denounce 'this day of infamy' and mobilise the colossal resources of American imperialism against an identifiable enemy, Japanese imperialism.
People talk of the trauma of another Pearl Harbor but, truth to say, the trauma in the aftermath of the day of infamy in 1941 was far in excess of what the circumstances warranted, and assiduously fanned by the government for reasons of state.
Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese on 7 December 1941, and within two days the United States was at war with Germany, Japan, and Italy.
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