Dec 10, 2020
“If this is our war, let’s get in. If this is not our war, let’s get out. Let the President and the Congress tell the people that this is our war, or it is not our war. Then there will be unity in America.”
- American Legion Past National Commander and former U.S. Ambassador Hanford MacNider, speaking three months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941; he would go on to command the Buna Task Force in New Guinea during World War II, sustaining two wounds, and lead the 158th Regimental Combat Team in the liberation of the Philippines.