Last night, while babysitting, i read a book on World War II, and I must say it was a very interesting. I learned more about the war than I ever knew happened.
In the book, they talked a bit about Pearl Harbor, and they talked about all the boats that were bombed, and they interviewed some of the witnesses and I remember one woman said "I was watching, but what I didn't realize was that while all those boats were being destroyed, young men were dying". and it's very true, a lot of men and women died during this war. BUT Pearl Harbor was just the mere beginning!
When we went to Germany and Japan, many more lives were lost, and just about everything was destroyed along the way. There were pictures in there of cities that were completely gone because of all the bombs that we were all dropping on each other. And there was this one picture, from Japan I think, of this boy in the fields surrendering to the troops because he was afraid of getting shot. a civilian surrendering during war. Meanwhile, in Europe, it was a whole other fight, people were dying left and right, Nazi Germany taking over just about every nation by them. The war was basically a war for nations. They showed a picture of the regions we had, next to Japan like Guam and little islands next to it, and we only had one left by the time we dropped atomic bombs. Everybody was just ruthless, like when we invaded Normandy, it was like as soon as you dropped the wall on the boat, you were dead. Just like the movies.
It's sad to see the massive numbers of millions of men and women that died during that door and that's not even the right amount because there's no way you could possibly count everyone who died.They had pictures of the POW and the death march and they said that when they would kill the soldiers, tanks and jeeps would try and run them over as much as they could. How terrible is that?
But I guess Nagasaki and Okinawa were kinda like payback. But it was truly horrible! there was this picture in there that showed this woman who got hit by like the aftershock or whatever, and it imprinted the pattern of her kimono into her skin. It was one heck of a bomb.
President Roosevelt died during the war, and there was this group of people standing in the street, and they all had a paper in their hands, crying, and the headlines "President Roosevelt suddenly dies" and the whole nation was just so sad. Like they didn't know what they were gonna do without him. But soon after he died, the war was over and there was finally peace, Germany was under control, Japan was practically gone, and communist China was... I don't remember :)
But all I know is that it was a very gruesome war. and I give props to anybody who goes and fights in war, because it sounds like the scariest thing ever.
