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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Thanks, Dan.
I have been on the Arizona Memorial many times, and it is always a reverent and solemn experience. Over 1,000 dead Americans under your feet, and she is still leaking oil from her bunkers to put a rainbow sheen on the surface. I am always surprised at the numbers of Japanese tourists that flock there. You would think that shame would keep them away, but I guess that they don't teach that there anymore.
Our Quad at Schofield Barracks in the 25th ID still had bullet holes in the exterior walls from Japanese planes' strafing attacks.
RIP, brothers.
TR
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Dan:
Thanks for the post.
We visited Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Arizona Memorial w/in a 2month timeframe, pretty sobering stuff...
I found only one reference to Pearl Harbor in the two japanese memorials, and it totally glossed over the fact that we were attacked by Japan.
Nancy had a Japanese Post-Doc who was here for a year or two, studying with her, he saw the film "Pearl Harbor" (the recent, silly version) and was aghast that the movie depicted Japan attacking the US... That was not what he had been taught. He asked everyone he was working with if in fact this was true, "Did Japan really attack the US at Pearl Harbor?
They have been rewriting history over there for some time now.
Terry