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I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

We're in a world war.

What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.