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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.

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four years later, Japan was in ruins, utterly defeated.