War with Japan. Get to office.

a telegram delivered to an Associated Press editor who was at the Redskins-Eagles football game at Washington’s Griffith Stadium on Dec. 7, 1941. (via washingtonpoststyle)

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    that must have been the most awkward goodbye ever: “erm, gotta run, there’s a war with Japan.”

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