
The Arizona 12/7/1941
"It was 70 years ago this morning that, as President Roosevelt put it the following day, 'The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.'
Then, four days later, Adolf Hitler declared war on America.
Thus was a fundamentally isolationist nation, content until then to pretend that two wide oceans could protect it from a world at war, dragged roughly onto the international stage — where it remains, fitfully, to this day."(Double left click on image for full story)