Slide 2 – Gloria

In 1937 Nanjing China was siezed by Japan.

Slide 3 – Lucie

In 1940 japan siezed Indochina

Slide 4 – Emma

1940 America starts to make atomic bomb.

Slide 5 – Gloria

1941 Attack on pearl harbor

Slide 6 – LucieMom told me to hurry because she didn’t want

to be late for church again. With mom being pregnant I had to take care of Jill, my five year old sister. The three and a half of us live near the Pearl Harbor Naval base where my father works.

Slide 7 – Emma

At 7:55 a.m. we were walking out the door when I felt pressure against my ears and saw palm trees shaking. Then explosions boomed in the background and my mom called for us from the safe room. When we ran inside, she slammed the door shut locking us in and the explosions out, but she couldn’t keep the noise out.

Slide 8 – Gloria

We thought it was cooling down but at 8:45 the explosions started up again. All I could think about was dad stuck on a ship with no wear to run, and all I could do to help was pray. Hopefully the ship Arizona was safe.

Slide 9 – Lucie

I gave mom and Jill the bed and slept on the floor. The noise pounded as we tried to get some sleep, but only Jill actually succeeded. When I was sure she was asleep I finally asked mom what was happening.

Slide 10 - Emma

She didn’t know much more than I did, but we both felt sure it wasn’t a practice that had gone wrong. We both knew this was real, this was war, and it was happening at Pearl Harbor.

Slide 11 – Gloria

It was probably the Japanese. The radio was full of people talking about how we had pressured them too much. With their resources and money low they were desperate. Mom said it would be too much if we cut them off the banks, it would push them over the edge, guess she was right.

Slide 12 - Lucie

After searching through the dark I found the radio. (podcast)

Slide 13 – Lucie

The radio confirmed all my worries. This was war and it had been the Japanese. The facts were there, almost all the planes were crashed, over eight ships sunk, and over 3000 dead.

Slide 14 - Gloria

Another fact we found out that out of the 3,000 dead about half of them were on the ship Arizona. My father was dead.

Slide 15 - Emma

President Roosevelt stated that yesterday, December 7, 1941, was, “a day which will live in infamy”, and I couldn’t agree more.

Slide 16 – LucieIn 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 that is because it was the only attack that I lost my father in.

Slide 17- EmmaBased on the radio reports, I have heard that the attack on Pearl Harbor is nothing compared to the attack on Hiroshima. The Americans dropped a newly created atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The Japanese lost everything. Most families didn’t survive, and people suffered from various illnesses due to the effects of the radiation.

Slide 16 – GloriaEveryone has been saying that I am supposed to 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. But inside I know that it was wrong what we did to the Japanese. I know that they are worse off than I am.