"Military History" Gotten Wrong... Spectacularly so.

And we promise to remember
the seventh of December
'cause we're the Seabees of the Navy,
The Bees of the Seven Seas!

The Seabee Hymn

On this date - minus twenty-years and three months - September 7, 1988, thus quoth George H. W. Bush:

"Today you remember - I wonder how many Americans remember - today is Pearl Harbor Day. Forty-seven years ago, to this very day, we were hit and hit hard at Pearl Harbor... Did I say September, 7th? Sorry about that. December 7th, 1941."

...I also wonder.
George, just for the record, this was a war you were in.
And you didn't just misspeak the date, you put yourself in the wrong month - and season - for a date that everyone in your generation recalls.
Or so I thought.
Reference: "The Clothes Have No Emperor" by Paul Lansky