Its crazy, you read about what happened at Pearl Harbor so many times as a history major, but until you are standing there you never get it. I didn't expect to be so emotionally moved by a place. I have quite a few family members who fought in WW2 (thanks granny for all the brothers!) and at least one was in the navy, so it hit home. I'm not ashamed to say that i got teary-eyed during the movie that they showed before we took the ferry-thing to the USS Arizona Memorial. Hearing what happened, the men who died, and especially that ones that were related(especially that there was a father-son pair that died on the Arizona)... wow, i can even imagine! All i can say is thanks to those men and that generation.
This is from the Arizona Memorial, looking out to the USS Missouri, where the Japanese signed the treaty ending WW2. I guess its sort of a Pandora's box thing, for me at least. After all that these two(USA, and Japan) did to each other in this war, this is sort of the hope left in the box, that they came to a treaty in the end(all-be-it a one sided treaty).
Its crazy, you read about what happened at Pearl Harbor so many times as a history major, but until you are standing there you never get it. I didn't expect to be so emotionally moved by a place. I have quite a few family members who fought in WW2 (thanks granny for all the brothers!) and at least one was in the navy, so it hit home. I'm not ashamed to say that i got teary-eyed during the movie that they showed before we took the ferry-thing to the USS Arizona Memorial. Hearing what happened, the men who died, and especially that ones that were related(especially that there was a father-son pair that died on the Arizona)... wow, i can even imagine! All i can say is thanks to those men and that generation.
This is from the Arizona Memorial, looking out to the USS Missouri, where the Japanese signed the treaty ending WW2. I guess its sort of a Pandora's box thing, for me at least. After all that these two(USA, and Japan) did to each other in this war, this is sort of the hope left in the box, that they came to a treaty in the end(all-be-it a one sided treaty).
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