Professor Greg Jackson

Almost literally.

Even when Doug MacArthur disappears to Australia on the White House's orders.

Even when no help follows, leaving them feeling completely abandoned.

These boys don't stop until there's truly no other choice.

It's with good reason they'll be known as the Battling Bastards of Bataan.

As we'll see, they'll display a perseverance that only makes their horrific, inhumane fate, a death march to an even deadlier prisoner of war camp, all the harder to hear.

On that note, if you're listening with the kids, maybe preview this one on your own first.

The tales from this march might not be for the littlest of ears.

It's a dark tale, but a necessary tale.

So on that note, let's leave Jimmy and his Doolittle Raiders in China and get to it by heading back to Washington, D.C.

of December 1941.

You know how we do that.

Rewind.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is right.

December 7th, 1941 is a date that will live in infamy.

And the nation responds to that reality immediately.

In fact, as FDR is delivering this instantly famous speech, calling on Congress to declare war but one day later on December 8th, our most prominent proponent of isolationism in many a past episode, Charles Lindbergh, is coming to the same position.

Speaking in Chicago at the headquarters of the America First Committee, the famous aviator concedes that what happened in Hawaii means it's time for war.

To quote Lucky Lindy, we have been stepping closer to war for many months.

Now, it has come, and we must meet it as united Americans regardless of our attitude in the past.