81 years ago today, Japan attacked the United States Naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The following day, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke to Congress, urging them to declare war on Japan. Within an hour of his speech, articles of war were drafted and passed by Congress, entering the United States into World War 2.

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