06 December 2007
Remembering Pearl Harbor and Hawaii trips!

December 7 is Pearl Habor memorial day for you. For us, it is December 8 because of the time zone difference. Pearl Habor is famous for the navy base which had been attacked by Japanese imperial army in 1941. More than 2000 GIs were killed. I visited there when I was in college. I flew to Hawaii from San Francisco. I was there on vacation. At that time, I was kind of ignorant about history. I did not feel guilty or express condolence to the dead soldiers. Now I do. People in Japan claim we've had far more casualties than Pearl Harbor by the U.S. air raids afterwards. But...