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Pearl Harbor 9/11 Speech

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Date of Infamy Pearl Harbor and 9/11, two days that will live in infamy forever. Two different

days and two different attacks by different kinds of people; but they have more in common

than you think. The attacks on 9/11 compare to those on Pearl Harbor because they both caused

severe damage and killed thousands of innocent people. Both Pearl Harbor and 9/11 killed

thousands of innocent people, and not just in the U.S. After both attacks, both of the Presidents

at that time gave a speech that inspired the nation. The outcomes of both attacks not only cost

thousands of dollars of damage, but they also caused the U.S to declare war on two different

countries. In the end, both attacks caused a chain reaction of events that …show more content…

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said that the U.S was trying to make peace with Japan and that the Japanese ambassador sent

the secretary of state a formal reply saying that that it was useless to continue with any

negotiations made with the U.S. After the attacks on 9/11 President George Walker Bush (43rd

President from 2001-2009) gave a speech addressing the attacks on The World Trade Center

and The Pentagon. Bush said that the attacks were deliberate and were meant to terrorize the

U.S. He also said that he had all intelligence and law communities trying to find the people

responsible for the terrorist attacks. While Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a more factual speech,

Bush went for a more emotional speech using a quote from the Bible (Psalm 23). ‘Tonight, I

ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been

shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened.’ This quote from

his speech suggests that he wanted to address the tragedy and reassure the U.S

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