#pearl harbor

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#before #born #church #father #go

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future. ↗

— Joe Baca

#changing #commit #course #future #harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#completely #crippled #fleet #harbor #our

I hope no one will think of... sending me to Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Charles A. Lockwood

#hope #i #me #pearl #pearl harbor

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. ↗

— Dan Rather

#attacked #had #harbor #i #ii

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#after #country #danger #day #defending

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq. ↗

— William Safire

#attack #characterize #choice #critics #current

This intellectual Pearl Harbor, a real gutsy sock to the stomach. ↗

— J. Allen Hynek

#intellectual #pearl #pearl harbor #real #sock

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Jack Adams

#battle #camp #harbor #midway #pearl

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#age #attacked #born #bought #december