Ailantha
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact

Thoughts On December 7th

12/7/2016

0 Comments

 
    Before I visited Pearl Harbor during a trip to Honolulu a year and a half ago most of my  mental pictures of that place had been created by  the World War II movies I'd seen, such as Tora! Tora! Tora!,
...which, by the way, if you haven't seen it  you should, as this 1970 film is the best Pearl Harbor attack film of them all  (at least  according to this critic),
Picture
Picture
...and from the images of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in these two World War II books that were on our bookshelf when I was growing up,
Picture
Picture
Picture
     And though some of the images in those books used to scare the bejeepers out of me,
Picture
Picture
...I not only couldn't resist continuing to pull them off the shelf on a regular basis, but when I grew up and had a home and bookshelf of my own I asked my parents if I could take them,
Picture
...with the result that they ended up on my  bookshelf and scared the bejeepers out of my kids.
     It must have been all those years of looking at those fear-provoking pictures of World War II that  caused me to wonder from time to time: did the leaders of Japan back then really believe their country would get away  with bombing Pearl Harbor?
  Did it occur to none of them that the United States  would come back to retaliate with a vengeance?
Picture
...though even if it had, who among them who could have imagined what the finale of that vengeance would be?
Picture
Picture
     
        But today when I think of Pearl Harbor,  I recall the images of that memorial as it looked when I saw it in the spring of 2015,
...crowded with visitors
from all over the world,

Picture
Picture
...including many Japanese,
...who had come to pay their respects and enjoy the peaceful beauty of this place.
Picture
    And I think of what a different day today will be at Pearl Harbor from that terrible day 75 years ago. 
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    "Hail Mary"
    by Patti Liszkay
    Buy it on Amazon:

    https://www.amzn.com/1684334888

    Picture
    "Equal And Opposite Reactions"
     by Patti Liszkay
    Buy it on Amazon:

    http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa
    or from
    The Book Loft
    of German Village,
    Columbus, Ohio
    Picture
    Or check it out at the Columbus Metropolitan Library
    Picture

    Archives

    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013

    RSS Feed

    I am a traveler just visiting this planet and reporting various and sundry observations,
    hopefully of interest to my fellow travelers.

    Categories

    All


























































































Proudly powered by Weebly