Pearl Harbor Day
December 7, 2015
Today is Pearl Harbor Day. FDR said it was “a date which will live in infamy.” It was rather a date that led America to enter the “good” war that was not so good after all. See my recent review of The Good War That Wasn’t — And Why It Matters: World War II’s Moral Legacy, by Ted Grimsrud (Cascade Books, 2014).
I think it is time once again to read what John T. Flynn wrote about FDR and Pearl Harbor back in the 1940s. See “John T. Flynn on Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor” for my reprint of, and foreword to, John T. Flynn’s The Truth About Pearl Harbor and The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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