ORR~08 Dec 07~Art Bell Replay w/Joyce Riley

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Post by WestBorder » 12-08-2007 08:33 PM

Brilliant speech by FDR. Some trivia: did you know that on the final rewrite, just before he was to leave the White House for Capital Hill to address Congress, FDR crossed out the word 'history' and replaced it with the 'infamy?' That one word vastly changed the entire feeling of that speech - FDR knew the right word for the right moment.
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Post by WestBorder » 12-08-2007 08:36 PM

Just call me the "Cliff Clavin" of the Fantastic Forum. ;)
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Post by Shirleypal » 12-08-2007 08:41 PM

I didn't know that W.B.......interesting.

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Post by WestBorder » 12-08-2007 08:55 PM

The amazing thing about that speech is how short of a time it took to write it. FDR delivered the speech on Dec. 8, 1941 approx 24 hours after the attack - Washington time...
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Post by WestBorder » 12-08-2007 09:07 PM

...and now, here's Art!
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Post by Shirleypal » 12-08-2007 09:14 PM

Sounds like he may have known something.

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Post by Janus232 » 12-08-2007 09:18 PM

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Post by WestBorder » 12-08-2007 09:19 PM

Historically its been proven that FDR and the military knew an attack was coming, but not WHERE it was coming. It's my opinion that FDR and his advisors felt that either the Philippines would be attacked (which they were) or some other target would be hit, Singapore or some place like that.

What you have with Pearl Harbor is a case of Murphy's Law multiplied. So many mistakes were made by senior officers on the ground in Hawaii as to be almost comical, despite the fact that a War Warning was flashed to the Army and Navy commands in Hawaii a couple of days before the attack...
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Post by WestBorder » 12-08-2007 09:21 PM

Greetings Janus! How are things in Southeast Asia today?
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Post by rev6 8 » 12-08-2007 09:21 PM

Of course it was Pearl Harbor, My bad. I always get the dates mixed up from that era.
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Post by Shirleypal » 12-08-2007 09:21 PM

Afternoon Janus:)

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Post by rev6 8 » 12-08-2007 09:22 PM

Hiya Janus, Should remember D day better, June 6 is my brothers birthday.
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Post by Janus232 » 12-08-2007 09:26 PM

WB: It's a wonderful bright and warm morning in Thailand.... just had a fresh coconut and star fruit breakfast... with pineapple juice...
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Post by WestBorder » 12-08-2007 09:28 PM

Sounds wonderful and delicious! It's a cold, snowy night here in Western Iowa and just had peanut butter and jelly. :D
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Post by IvyQ » 12-08-2007 09:30 PM

hi Janus :)

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