George H.W. Bush: 75 years After Pearl Harbor, Strength Renewed

The attack on Pearl Harbor 75 years ago drew a staggered, reluctant America headlong into the global struggle against the Axis powers.  I was still in high school walking across the campus at Andover in Massachusetts when we heard the news.

Like everyone, I was stunned that someone would attack our country. In the preceding years, President Roosevelt had tried to steer a course of neutrality, attempting to keep America out of the building conflagration that was consuming both Europe and Asia.

Pearl Harbor settled that debate with horrific clarity.

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