Tom Lantos: “On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt said that day shall go down as a day of…”

“On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt said that day shall go down as a day of infamy. On September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and I believe that day will go down as our day of greatest infamy. Over 2,000 were killed at Pearl Harbor. I fear that the dead and injured in yesterday's sneak attack will be far, far greater than that. Tom Brokaw wrote a book entitled 'Our Greatest Generation.' I enjoyed that book. I was proud of the men and women who made up, who make up, that greatest generation. We responded to the attack on Pearl Harbor with unity; decisively, forcefully. And I am supremely confident that we will match the American response of the forties, that we are unified, that we will act decisively and forcefully, as decisively and forcefully as we acted against Japan, and that perhaps one day our present generation might be known, because of our response, as the greatest generation.”