Why We Remember Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor struck fear and anger into the people of the U.S. Almost immediately after the attack, Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan. Our national security was questioned and chaos erupted on the West Coast. People thought that the Japanese would attack them next. Racial tensions grew on Japanese-Americans. Focused one one goal: revenge. The U.S. people united and through the next several years, that unity made the U.S. a global superpower. However, it came at a cost that we should never forget.
No one can deny that Japan and the U.S. had been edging to war for decades According to History Channel site, “Pearl Harbor” , “ Pearl Harbor and The Road to War”. Japan had been expanding its territory and its aggression. As a result, Franklin Roosevelt signed an Embargo Act on Japan. The two governments continued to push each other, it seemed that war was inevitable.
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According to Gaston Gazette, “Why we remember Pearl Harbor”, the legacy of Pearl Harbor is told through the numbers of loss alone. Almost 2,400 soldiers lost their lives and another 1,200 were wounded in the surprise attack. It seems that this event is something that our nation is soon to lose importance to, though around 4,000 people visit the sight of the Pearl Harbor every day and almost 2 million visit the U.S.S. Arizona memorial every year where oil still floats to the surface from the sunken ship. I have been to this memorial and I have to say that when you look at that hundreds of names of the soldiers that died on the Arizona carved on that wall, it really gets to you. I believe that as a nation, it is important that we remember this tragic loss made us a global superpower and that we should never forget the events that occurred on December