thx so much carly
Sources: http://my.execpc.com/~dschaaf/overview.html
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5166
http://www.ocolly.okstate.edu/issues/1997_Fall/971208/stories/ph.html
Pearl Harbor Gary Schwartz Per. 6 Hush
It’s hell outside as Ben rushes to his plane. He sees enemy fighters in the air with that red circle on the side that makes his skin crawl. As he gets to where the planes are he sees half of them destroyed already, his own included. How could this have happened, weren’t we at peace with Japan? What’ll happen now, look at the nurses scrambling to save those innocent peoples lives, more so look at the people they’re helping , there isn’t enough supplies in all of Hawaii to even rap them up. Now Ben sees his buddies whose planes weren’t destroyed go up into the air to fight off these invaders. Just then a kamikaze pilot launches himself at a ship Ben saw in the water only a moment before, it sunk and he heard the terrified screams from onboard. On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 Pearl Harbor, Oahu, was attacked by the Japanese Imperial Navy at around 8 O’clock in the morning. This unsuspected offensive taken by the Japanese was ordered by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and was carried out by Japanese commander Mitsuo Fuchida with the force of 353 warplanes armed with bombs and samurai pilots willing to kill themselves to fulfill their mission. This attack had surprised America because there had been no formal declaration of war by the Americans or the Japanese. The attack should not have been such a surprise because the U.S. trapped Japan into a corner by not giving them certain supplies that they would need to defend themselves forcing them into war with the U.S. There were about 100 battleships at pearl harbor that day, one of which was the USS Arizona. The Arizona was attacked on Pearl harbor while most of its men were asleep only 75 men escaped while 1102 remain even today encased inside the sunken battleship and it remains a memorial to those who died at sea on that day. Other ships that were bombed and destroyed along with the sailors inside it were the USS Oklahoma, California, West Virginia and Utah. Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date that will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan- President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As FDR addresses a terrified nation he tells that Japan has deceived America with false hope of peace and has attacked us. America was caught by surprise this day and this tragedy is one that will never be forgotten. The events of Pearl Harbor are significant for many reasons, one being that it quieted all the pacifists that said we should not get involved with this war. Although people still argue over whether America would have gotten involved with the war if it wasn’t for Japan, it is obvious that Pearl Harbor was what got us to notice Hitler and what he was doing in Europe. Without Japan’s attack how long would it have taken us to get involved and what would have happened to the Jewish people? Also it is very important to know the way that we retaliated against the Japanese, in lame mans terms, we nuked them, and we did it 2 times (in Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Basically what Pearl Harbor did was get us into a war in which we didn’t want to get into and led to the eventual end of the war which may have come a lot later without our involvement..
My opinion on the subject is one that was very hard for me to come by and harder yet for me to say, for I’m not sure how ethical it is. It’s impossible for me to decide if what I am about to say is very moral at all because to do so I would need to decide the lifelong debate of whether the end justify the means. The cold truth is that although it was a horrible thing when so many innocent people died, both in Pearl Harbor and in Hiroshima and Nagasaki it did help to end the war. I mean who knows how long it would have gone on if we had not gotten involved and how many more people would have died. But I do believe that, although being bombed was not a good thing, something had to be done to get America involved with the World War. If we never got involved would Europe be ruled by a Nazi leader right now? Perhaps not but one thing is for sure, anyone with Jewish blood in them still in Europe would be dead. Any homosexual or gypsy would have died as well. Civilians would be killed in the crossfires of war and it would be hell on Earth. So, I guess, the ends did justify the means although the means meant the lives of thousands.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5166
http://www.ocolly.okstate.edu/issues/1997_Fall/971208/stories/ph.html
Pearl Harbor Gary Schwartz Per. 6 Hush
It’s hell outside as Ben rushes to his plane. He sees enemy fighters in the air with that red circle on the side that makes his skin crawl. As he gets to where the planes are he sees half of them destroyed already, his own included. How could this have happened, weren’t we at peace with Japan? What’ll happen now, look at the nurses scrambling to save those innocent peoples lives, more so look at the people they’re helping , there isn’t enough supplies in all of Hawaii to even rap them up. Now Ben sees his buddies whose planes weren’t destroyed go up into the air to fight off these invaders. Just then a kamikaze pilot launches himself at a ship Ben saw in the water only a moment before, it sunk and he heard the terrified screams from onboard. On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 Pearl Harbor, Oahu, was attacked by the Japanese Imperial Navy at around 8 O’clock in the morning. This unsuspected offensive taken by the Japanese was ordered by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and was carried out by Japanese commander Mitsuo Fuchida with the force of 353 warplanes armed with bombs and samurai pilots willing to kill themselves to fulfill their mission. This attack had surprised America because there had been no formal declaration of war by the Americans or the Japanese. The attack should not have been such a surprise because the U.S. trapped Japan into a corner by not giving them certain supplies that they would need to defend themselves forcing them into war with the U.S. There were about 100 battleships at pearl harbor that day, one of which was the USS Arizona. The Arizona was attacked on Pearl harbor while most of its men were asleep only 75 men escaped while 1102 remain even today encased inside the sunken battleship and it remains a memorial to those who died at sea on that day. Other ships that were bombed and destroyed along with the sailors inside it were the USS Oklahoma, California, West Virginia and Utah. Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date that will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan- President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As FDR addresses a terrified nation he tells that Japan has deceived America with false hope of peace and has attacked us. America was caught by surprise this day and this tragedy is one that will never be forgotten. The events of Pearl Harbor are significant for many reasons, one being that it quieted all the pacifists that said we should not get involved with this war. Although people still argue over whether America would have gotten involved with the war if it wasn’t for Japan, it is obvious that Pearl Harbor was what got us to notice Hitler and what he was doing in Europe. Without Japan’s attack how long would it have taken us to get involved and what would have happened to the Jewish people? Also it is very important to know the way that we retaliated against the Japanese, in lame mans terms, we nuked them, and we did it 2 times (in Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Basically what Pearl Harbor did was get us into a war in which we didn’t want to get into and led to the eventual end of the war which may have come a lot later without our involvement..
My opinion on the subject is one that was very hard for me to come by and harder yet for me to say, for I’m not sure how ethical it is. It’s impossible for me to decide if what I am about to say is very moral at all because to do so I would need to decide the lifelong debate of whether the end justify the means. The cold truth is that although it was a horrible thing when so many innocent people died, both in Pearl Harbor and in Hiroshima and Nagasaki it did help to end the war. I mean who knows how long it would have gone on if we had not gotten involved and how many more people would have died. But I do believe that, although being bombed was not a good thing, something had to be done to get America involved with the World War. If we never got involved would Europe be ruled by a Nazi leader right now? Perhaps not but one thing is for sure, anyone with Jewish blood in them still in Europe would be dead. Any homosexual or gypsy would have died as well. Civilians would be killed in the crossfires of war and it would be hell on Earth. So, I guess, the ends did justify the means although the means meant the lives of thousands.