“Tora! Torah! Tora!”, sounds Japanese pilot Mitsuo Fuchida to the other 182 planes in massive formation around 7:53 am on December 7, 1941. Suddenly chaos reigns over the Hawaiian Islands, in and around the naval base known as Pearl Harbor; the result: 2402 Americans killed, over 1100 wounded and 21 ships of the US Pacific Fleet destroyed or damaged. The toll of the Japanese opposition, 29 aircraft This single battle would become one of the most brilliant tactical blows in military history, crippling America's fighting ability for several consecutive months. Despite this, America rose from the ashes with a new image, a new goal, as a new nation never be forgotten: from the fire of that battle and the cries of the Americans something spectacular happened, true unity in the face of external aggression was found, a unity that ultimately spelled a new destiny for America. .In the wake of that devastating surprise attack, America experienced something that had rarely been experienced, a sense of national unity and identity. When Franklin D. Roosevelt appeared in America and forever imprinted “December 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy,” in the minds of millions of Americans, the tears shed did not belong to any race, creed or religion; instead they were the tears of a single nation, shed on the bodies of thousands of young American sailors, airmen and soldiers. With their eyes still clouded with tears of grief, many Americans went so far as to condone the incarceration of neighbors of Japanese descent; this group, however, would not be content to stand by and silently acquiesce to this misguided treatment. Rather, many of the... mid-paper citizens... until America intervened. “Those who expect to reap the blessings of liberty, must, like men, endure the toil of sustaining it,” famous writer Thomas Paine observed, a concept that was adopted in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, altering for always the story. the living sum of all the past,” wrote Thomas Carlyle in Characteristics; Pearl Harbor is perhaps the most influential moment in the world's recent history, the wheels set in motion by that single attack changing the face of the world order, returning humanity to its current course. America alone gave people two things rarely experienced before, a true sense of national identity and a new path to follow. With all that has been set in motion, it remains imperative that society does not forget the inciting event: the Battle of Pearl Harbor..