What breaks my heart is that we always forget. Always. I’m not calling for vengeance against the Japanese. Just some notice. Just some honor for the dead, for all they lost.
What breaks my heart is that we always forget. Always. I’m not calling for vengeance against the Japanese. Just some notice. Just some honor for the dead, for all they lost.
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Believe it or not, more people died on 9/11 than at Pearl Harbor because it was a mainland attack. Perhaps there is something to be learned by remembering both of them together in respect to their involuntary sacrifice…
Here are more WWII photos, leading with an inspiring shot of women fighting the fires at Pearl Harbor. I hadn’t seen this before.
I should have mentioned that it’s not just Pearl Harbor. I feel this way about every death of every war. Something cries out that remembering is a sacred duty. But we can’t remember it all. I guess that’s what a heaven’s for.
I have just returned from Hawaii/Pearl Harbor now by just a month of so…….
It is interesting that the Japanese who go to visit the Arizona Memorial seem much more respectful of the place than Americans do. My wife wondered if that was because she was afraid we Americans would beat her up if she accidentally, somehow, showed disrespect.
On the down-side, unless you are VERY lucky, you must leave your hotel/home around 4AM, drive to the memorial entrance and spend, I think it was $20/head to get into the place. The tickets are usually sold out between 7AM and 10AM. So, you wait until they open the gates at 7AM. IF you don’t get there first, odds are you won’t get a ticket.
Also, don’t bring any kind of back-pack, purse, or carry-all…they make you take it to a holding “cell” and for $3.00 they will keep it for you the whole time you are there. They fear bombs are in the bags/purses, etc… that is another reason the holding “cell” building is so far away from the rest of the memorial’s museums and interest points.
What a shame! We go there to pay respect for our fallen and end up being suspects of terror….!