{"id":1169,"date":"1982-12-07T18:00:00","date_gmt":"1982-12-07T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:01:19","slug":"1982-12-07-we-will-never-forget-by-charles-phillip-bissell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/1982\/12\/07\/1982-12-07-we-will-never-forget-by-charles-phillip-bissell\/","title":{"rendered":"1982.12.07 \u201cWe Will Never Forget\u2026\u201d by Charles Phillip Bissell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1170 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/999\/2026\/04\/1982-Dec-7-PearlHarborA-693x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A clenched fist wrapped in a ribbon labeled REMEMBER rises above an explosion at sea, with warships sinking below. The date DEC. 7, 1941 is written amid smoke, and text below reads ...WE WILL NEVER FORGET.\" width=\"584\" height=\"863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/999\/2026\/04\/1982-Dec-7-PearlHarborA-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/999\/2026\/04\/1982-Dec-7-PearlHarborA-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/999\/2026\/04\/1982-Dec-7-PearlHarborA-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/999\/2026\/04\/1982-Dec-7-PearlHarborA.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">1982.12.07 \u201cWe Will Never Forget\u2026\u201d<br \/>\nby Charles Phillip Bissell (1926 -)<br \/>\n12 x 17.5, ink and wash on board<br \/>\nCoppola Collection<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1960, Boston Globe cartoonist Phil Bissell, working for $25 a day, was handed an assignment that would change his life\u2014and the lives of fans of the brand-new AFL football team coming to Boston. \u201cSports editor Jerry Nason came to me and he said, \u2018They\u2019ve decided to call the team the Boston Patriots. You better have a cartoon ready for tomorrow\u2019s edition.\u2019\u201d Bissel\u2019s \u201cPat Patriot\u201d cartoon was the Patriot\u2019s logo from 1961-1992.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">On December 7, 1941, the Japanese navy launched a surprise military attack against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor located on the island of O&#8217;ahu. The attack on Pearl Harbor was intended to neutralize the United States Pacific Fleet as the Japanese expanded throughout the Pacific region. Despite numerous historical precedents for unannounced military action, the lack of any formal warning by Japan led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to proclaim December 7, 1941, &#8220;a date which will live in infamy.&#8221; The attack on Pearl Harbor, not only brought America into World War II, but raised suspicions of the large Japanese communities on West Coast of the United States and in Hawai&#8217;i.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1982.12.07 \u201cWe Will Never Forget\u2026\u201d by Charles Phillip Bissell (1926 -) 12 x 17.5, ink and wash on board Coppola Collection In 1960, Boston Globe cartoonist Phil Bissell, working for $25 a day, was handed an assignment that would change &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/1982\/12\/07\/1982-12-07-we-will-never-forget-by-charles-phillip-bissell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-32"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/ww2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}