Within an hour of Roosevelt’s speech, Congress declared war on the Empire of Japan.ĮDITORS NOTE: This Thomas More Law Center column is republished with permission. TMLC Pearl Harbor Day Video 12072021 from Thomas More Law Center on Vimeo. Please watch this video of President Roosevelt’s address: “But always will our whole Nation remember the character of the onslaught against us.” Yesterday, Decema date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan, then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt put the surprise attack which left about 2404 American service-members and civilians dead and thrust the United States into war into words. Roosevelt addressed a joint session of the 77th United States Congress, calling December 7 “ a date which will live in infamy.”
The next day, December 8, President Franklin D. and Japan were officially engaging in diplomatic negotiations for possible peace in Asia. aircraft were destroyed, and 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,282 were wounded. The attack started at 7:55am local time in Hawaii. Today, the Thomas More Law Center remembers the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 80 years ago, on December 7, 1941.
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