Pearl Harbor Day
69 years ago today, Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and bombed battleship row where 2,402 members of the military and 57 civilians were killed. While most of the fleet was salvaged, the USS Arizona and Utah were too heavily damaged, and the former is now used as part of the Pearl Harbor memorial.
This speech, given by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is one of the most famous speeches in the history of our country.
He who but yesterday would roam
Careless as clouds and currents range,
In homeless wandering most at home,
Inhabiter of change;
Who wooed the west to win the east,
And named the stars of north and south,
And felt the zest of Freedom’s feast
Familiar in his mouth;
Who found a faith in stranger speech,
And fellowship in foreign hands,
And had within his eager reach
The relish of all lands-
How circumscribed a plot of earth
Keeps now his restless footsteps still,
Whose wish was wide as ocean’s girth,
Whose will the water’s will!
Epitaph for a Sailor Buried Ashore by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860-1943)
This speech, given by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is one of the most famous speeches in the history of our country.
Click to viewHe who but yesterday would roam
Careless as clouds and currents range,
In homeless wandering most at home,
Inhabiter of change;
Who wooed the west to win the east,
And named the stars of north and south,
And felt the zest of Freedom’s feast
Familiar in his mouth;
Who found a faith in stranger speech,
And fellowship in foreign hands,
And had within his eager reach
The relish of all lands-
How circumscribed a plot of earth
Keeps now his restless footsteps still,
Whose wish was wide as ocean’s girth,
Whose will the water’s will!
Epitaph for a Sailor Buried Ashore by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860-1943)