AMERICANS AT PEARL HARBOR

Lucie Kresl, Gloria Jones, and Emma Goff

1937Japanese seize Nanjing, China

1940Japanese seize Indochina

1941• America starts to make atomic

bombs

1941Attack on Pearl Harbor

In Pearl Harbor many family members and friends were lost, and nearly

everyone’s lives were drastically changed. In some ways the attack was the

most devastating thing in the world, maybe which is because it was the only

attack that I lost my father. How others my view this attack is that it is nothing

compared to some of the other losses in this war. Lately I’ve heard on the radio

that there was attack on Hiroshima, a city in Japan. There was something called

an atomic bomb that the American dropped on the Japanese. They lost

everything. Most families didn’t survive, and people are suffering from various

illnesses. In my head I think that the Japanese deserved this attack, deserved

their losses, and deserved all their suffering. After all they did to Oahu and my

family they all deserved to die. In my heart I feel that no one could ever deserve

this, that they all have feelings and that (if possible) they might even feel worse

than me.

Reflections

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