January 23, 2007
Quotes > Yamamoto's "Sleeping Giant" Quote Disputed
From Wikipedia:
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." The quote has become one of the most famous quotes from World War II. The quote was abbreviated in the film Pearl Harbor (2001), where it merely read, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant." However, no one has been able to verify that Yamamoto ever actually said (or wrote) those words.
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Posted by lesjones
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Probably because everybody who heard him say it is dead.