Reading Prompt 5

Perspectives on the Pacific War [Prompt 11]
1. Dower called the pacific war a race war because that what it was. Americans used propaganda extensively during the all of WW2. In the case against the Japanese they depicted them as buck-toothed, bespectacled inferiors.
2. I have read a lot about the two world wars, and thought I knew what to expect; I was so wrong. It is solemn reminder of the what happened, and just how serious war is. The video that they showed before you take the ship to the memorial was so poignant. All I could think of was my family members that fought in that war. I had at least six relatives in that fought in parts of the armed forces, so the family part of the memorial got to me. The video said that something like 3 or 4 sets of brothers were on the Arizona, and one father-son pair. Wow.
3. I saw a wide variety of people and ages. there were babies to senior citizens. Every type of people were there, i remember hearing a french couple and what I can only assume was German. There were mostly "Americans" or English seekers, and Asians (which made sense, being the two involved parties and what not)
4. I think people go to war memorials to better understand what happened there, in that war, at that time. Pearl Harbor is sort of above most war memorials, to me at least, in significance. We are thought in grade school that it was this horrible unprovoked attack, so that makes you get that pang of hurt for those who died when you are there; not to mention a soaring sense of patriotism. For non-Americans i think its still an important battle memorial, after all the Americans did a considerable amount to turn the tide of WW2 and in winning it.
5. The memorial focused on the pacific fleat, and just the pacific theater of the war. It didn't cover other battles that we were involved in, or even the "retaliation" per say for the events o that fateful day in December.