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That We Won:
World War II: After the War - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
I really began to rehash old memories while I was looking at those. All of it happened during my lifetime. I remember two of my uncles hanging a run of wire aerial outside my grandparent's house preparing to listen to Roosevelt's Dec. 8, 1941 speech declaring war on the Japanese following Pearl Harbor. They had an old battery powered RCA console radio. All of us gathered around the radio in the front room of the old farmhouse and nobody made a sound while the president was speaking. I was barely seven years old. I think it's fascinating that after 70 years anyone with a PC and broadband connection can watch that same speech on youtube:
American Rhetoric: Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation (12-08-41)
World War II: After the War - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
I really began to rehash old memories while I was looking at those. All of it happened during my lifetime. I remember two of my uncles hanging a run of wire aerial outside my grandparent's house preparing to listen to Roosevelt's Dec. 8, 1941 speech declaring war on the Japanese following Pearl Harbor. They had an old battery powered RCA console radio. All of us gathered around the radio in the front room of the old farmhouse and nobody made a sound while the president was speaking. I was barely seven years old. I think it's fascinating that after 70 years anyone with a PC and broadband connection can watch that same speech on youtube:
American Rhetoric: Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation (12-08-41)
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