December 7, 1942                      
 
                                                            
 
 
I deeply appreciate your message. Much has happened since 
      the treacherous attack in the Pacific one year ago today. For 
      months, most of the news was bad despite heroic resistance of 
      Chinese, Dutch, British Commonwealth and American forces. The 
      injuries that all of us have suffered at the hands of Japan are 
      indeed grievous. A partial retribution in kind has been meted 
      out to the Japanese forces during the last seven months. This 
      is only the beginning. We will continue to strike them, with 
      ever increasing force. I welcome your statement and Join with 
      you in the resolution that Japan's aggressive power must be utterly 
      destroyed, In no other way can we be certain that their infamous 
                 aggression will not be repeated.           
 
                                                            
 
 
Roosevelt