Number 6, I recall Grade 10 history in New York State. I do not recall ever being offered a hint that Roosevelt made moves which might have been intended to provoke Japan into launching a war. All I remember was lots of emphasis on the "day of infamy" aspect, the "sneak attack", the cruelty and bestiality of the Japanese, and stuff like that.

I mean, it was as if they were still trying to get us schoolkids mad enough to enlist right away and go off to Asia and kill "slant-eyed, bucktoothed little maniacs" for America....and that was a whole generation later, after the fact.

How long does hatred for another people have to be maintained in a "free society"? And what for? What good could it possibly do?

Would it serve to expiate guilt for having dropped atomic bombs on 2 cities, and incinerating a few others with conventional bombing? I wonder.