“The war that we have carefully for yearsprovokedCatches us unprepared, amazed and indignant.Our warships are shotLike sitting ducks and our planes like nest-birds,both our coasts ridiculously panicked,And our leaders make orations. This is thepeopleThat hopes to impose on the whole planetaryworldAn American peace.”      - Robinson Jeffers, “Pearl Harbor.” “This...

  “The war that we have carefully for yearsprovokedCatches us unprepared, amazed and indignant.Our warships are shotLike sitting ducks and our planes like nest-birds,both our coasts ridiculously panicked,And our leaders make orations. This is thepeopleThat hopes to impose on the whole planetaryworldAn American peace.”      - Robinson Jeffers, “Pearl Harbor.” “This...