ANALYSIS/OPINION:
On this day 74 years ago, the United States went to war when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Much of the world was already at war, but that was the action that would bring the United States into it.
It was such a frightening day, Dec. 7, 1941, that it is remembered as “a day that will live in infamy” — President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s words.
At the Washington Redskins’ game against the Philadelphia Eagles that day at Griffith Stadium, there was no war going on. There was just football. There was no sign that bombs had fallen at Pearl Harbor.