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Continental employees were livid at the bankruptcy and pay offers. Said one worker, recalling the airline's past brushes with economic disaster: "A lot of people gave their hearts and souls here for years. Now there is nothing but broken hearts." Complained Senior Flight Attendant Pearl Kelly: "Lorenzo is pulling us around like puppets...
...very madness of Hitler's enterprise made war, from the Allied perspective, seem sane and necessary. If ever there was a war that should be fought, it was that one, against such evil. But war always has its reasons, its internal logic. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was despicably aggressive to most Americans but made abundant sense to the Japanese general staff. It was an essential means of staking out the Japanese sphere of influence. That imperial ambition was only extinguished, at last, by the terrible light that burst over Hiroshima. The end of World...
Instantly on the news from Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt ordered the Army and Navy: "Fight Back...
Torpedoes launched from bombers tore at the dreadnoughts in Pearl Harbor. Dive-bombers swooped down on the Army's Hickam and Wheeler Fields. All the way from Pacific Heights down to the center of town the planes soared, leaving a wake of destruction...
Obvious to onlookers on the Honolulu hills was the fact that Pearl Harbor was being hit hard. From the Navy's plane base on Ford Island (also known as Luke Field), in the middle of the harbor, clouds of smoke ascended. One citizen who was driving past the naval base saw the first bomb fall on Ford Island...