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December 7, 1941: “A date which will live in infamy.” — Franklin
D. Roosevelt
Who can ever forget President Roosevelt’s utterance of
those fateful words that propelled the United States headlong into World War
II? The Japanese sneak attack that spurred
our reluctant country into jo
ining the expanding European and Asian conflict 73
years ago is not forgotten. However,
what has been lost during the intervening decades is that the US had actually known,
through a series of intercepted and decoded diplomatic communiqués, that a Japanese
attack was imminent. Yet the administration did little to take defensive
action.
