1. “Good evening, ladies, and gentlemen. I am speaking to you tonight at a very serious moment in our history. [..] For months now the knowledge that something of this kind might happen has been hanging over our heads and yet it seemed impossible to believe, impossible to drop the everyday things of life and feel that there was only one thing which was important—preparation to meet an enemy no matter where he struck....
2. “That is all over now, and there is no more uncertainty. We know what we have to face, and we know that we are ready to face it.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, Radio Broadcast, December 7, 1941
Excerpt From
Awakening the Spirit of America
Paul M. Sparrow