Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, an ostensibly shocked President Franklin Roosevelt went before Congress to request a declaration of war against Japan. In that address, Roosevelt declared that December 7 would be ‘a date which will live in infamy.’ … the Japanese attack on the United States was a ‘sneak’ attack — that is, an attack that was not preceded by an official declaration of war by Japan against the United States. Under FDR’s reasoning, by not first declaring war on the United States and then attacking Pearl Harbor, Japan had behaved in a sneaky, low-brow, dishonorable way. And that’s been the official U.S. narrative that has been taught to American schoolchildren in America’s public schools ever since. … A question naturally arises: Should that official narrative regarding America’s entry into World War II now be scotched, in view of the recent U.S.-Israel sneak attack on Iran?” (03/12/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/03/12/should-december-7-continue-to-be-a-date-that-lives-in-infamy/