lightly in the chest. He picked up the bullet and said to an aide, “It would have been merciful had it killed me.”” (Arroyo 31)Part 3In my opinion the government was well aware in advance that the Japanese had planned an attack on Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt tried to cover up the fact that he knew about the attack by blaming in on the navy and army commanders in Hawaii. It is a known fact that the Americans had begun tapping into Japanese military telegrams for a long time, years actually and had worked out every kink to decoding their government and military actions. With this in affect the United States government had to have known just about every move Japan was making. How could they not know? Any other time they would brag about knowing all about what Japan’s decisions and plans were until now, all of a sudden they claim they didn’t know something. They claimed that this little detail of the attack on Pearl Harbor was left out. And not only were Americans reading the telegrams, but they also had spies in Japan watching out for the United States. Japan did not just think this attack up in a few minutes, they were planning it for a very long time, and the United States had plenty of time to figure it all out. In a way I think President Roosevelt sold out his country by keeping all the information he had collected from the people that were in Pearl Harbor. It was evident that Roosevelt liked war. So when he found out what would happen he just let it go. Everyone in Hawaii when the battle took place tried so hard to save one another, the island, and their country on that fateful day December 7, 1941. And as hard as they tried, the United States still lost 2,388 people and 1,368 were wounded, every single one of these people died in honor of America. They all put their lives on the line for our country, the United States of America. The least Roosevelt could have done was warn them, an...
