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Overview of Pearl Harbor

 

            For the past generations September 11, 2001 was a day no one could forget. The attack of 9/11 was unexpected and an ultimate surprise, and hurt Americans physically and emotionally. To the generation before that though, Pearl Harbor was the 9/11 today. If we put ourselves in the shoes that someone would be wearing that day we would know that Japan was growing stronger and stronger, yet we never quite understood how powerful one country could get. Most importantly though; we thought the government and Japan were forming a peace treaty. What one didn't know at the time though was that Japan was just keeping us comfortable and happy for the right moment to stab us in the back. .
             While waking up for most people isn't the easiest thing to do, throw in the fact that now you are being woken up to screaming and yelling "this is not a drill, I repeat, this is not a drill! " Would you be in any sort of shock? For some that yelling they heard was the last thing they witnessed. The USS Arizona alone is the final resting place to some 1,177 crewmen alone. One story from a man he quoted, "'I was at home with my wife in Honolulu at the start of the attack. I hurried to Pearl Harbor in the midst the air strike to help men from boats as they came ashore' ˜you tend to think when you're there, watching those boats blow up. Will I ever see home again? Will I see my family? However could I get out of this alive.' " This man survived the attack and risked his life for others. He's not the only man of course; many people risked their lives during the whole part of the war to help others.
             The attack which later would happen on December 7, 1941 was part of a sequential strategy of Japan's expansion. The idea behind the attack was to stop the United States from inferring with the invasion of Asia and the western Pacific. Commander-in-chief, Isoroku Yamamoto was the architect of the December 7 attack on Pearl Harbor.


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