( Part I ) : Justification For a Massacre

When the action is over
and we look back...
we understand both more and less.
This much is certain.

Before the Doolittle raid,
America knew nothing but defeat.
After it,
there was hope of victory.

Japan realized, for the first time, that
they could lose and began to pull back.
America realized that she would win
and surged forward.

It was a war that changed
America and the world.

Dorie Miller was the first black
American to be awarded the Navy Cross.
But he would not be the last.
He joined a brotherhood of heroes.

That's for all the Raiders.

World War II, for us,
began at Pearl Harbor...
and 1,177 men still lie entombed
in the battleship Arizona.

America suffered,
but America grew stronger.

It was not inevitable.
The times tried our souls...
and through the trial,
we overcame.

And Here comes The Mushrooms .......