...that the Japanese navy launched a surprise military attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, an act which effectively brought the USA into World War II on the side of the good guys!

We can only speculate on how the war would have developed if this incident had never taken place, and on the kind of world we would live in today if the so-called "Axis of Evil" (Japan, Italy and Germany) hadn't declared war on the USA.

Pearl Harbor was both a tragedy and an atrocity, like so many other acts of war, but at least the souls of those who perished can rest secure in the knowledge that their deaths weren't in vain, and that the incident led, a few years later, to the end of World War II, and to a peace between the powerful nations involved which has survived until this day.