Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
No...it's December 8 because that was the start of the war.

Carl
"I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire."
Declared December 8th, a state of war since the attack on December 7th.