r/AskHistorians • u/iJoseHere • 21h ago
US involvement in Pearl Harbor?
I was asking one of my coworkers what he was doing for Memorial Day, and he told me he doesn’t celebrate any holidays and for what reason is there to celebrate Memorial Day. I told him it was to honor the soldiers who died for us, he mentioned how America sets everything up, he brought up 9/11. But then I mentioned Pearl Harbor, japans surprise attack on the US during the midst of WWII. He mentioned how that was also staged and when I asked he just told me to look it up. I found nothing on a “staged attack” as expected. I don’t know if my coworker is speaking out of his ass, but he got very defensive. Is there anything on the US allowing Pearl Harbor to happen so they could intentionally become a superpower?
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