9/11: The Day Of Infamy

Day of Infamy All throughout the world, countries are attacked. Throughout time, countries are attacked repeatedly, by many different countries for countless reasons. Some reasons are war, or they are enemies of the country, or they don't like the country. Our country has been attacked two major times, during World War II and during 9/11, both times were surprise attacks. On December 8, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a speech to Congress, December 7, 1941, was a day that would go down in the history books and will be remembered forever. It was the day that we were betrayed by people with whom we were in peace talks with.. That day, was when the Japanese decided to attack Pearl Harbor. They bombed the military base and caused …show more content…
The next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave an emotionally intense speech to the Congress trying to convince them that the United States needed to go to war. He told them that they needed to get justice for the death and destruction that happened on that fateful day before. Roosevelt said that the Japanese and America were in peace talks in Washington D.C. when the attack happened. It was a surprise attack on the United States, an attack that had to have been planned for many days or weeks before. Roosevelt says that an hour after this attack happened, the Japanese Ambassador told the United States that no more peace talk was needed. The Japanese Government had deliberately tried to deceive the United States by giving them false statements and expression of hope for continued peace. He mentions that the islands of Hawaii are so out of the way of Japan making this attack and intentional act of war. Roosevelt says that no matter what or no matter how long it takes "the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory". Roosevelt is telling the Congress that American's will get justice for the deaths that the Japanese people had wrought on …show more content…
Like the attack on December 7, 1941, it was a surprise attack with no warning before. This attack was made to destroy part of the United States, to cause damage beyond repair, and to kill people. Much like the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, this attack killed many people and destroyed parts of the United States, and traumatizing many more. Instead of destroying or breaking the bond that was forged on December 7, 1941 this bond was damaged but not broken, and the United States came out of this tragedy better and