Victory over Japan Day reminds us what American exceptionalism is made of
Editor’s note: This piece by Donald Bryson was published first at RealClearHistory. September 2, 1945, and its display of American military strength was, in many ways, the culmination of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s famous quote after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941: “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant...