On Sunday December 7, 1941, Aircraft and midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy began an attack on the U.S. at Pearl Harbor, nine ships of the U.S. fleet were sunk and 21 ships were severely damaged. Three of the 21 would be irreparable. The overall death toll reached 2,350, including 68 civilians, and 1,178 injured. Of the military personnel lost at Pearl Harbor, 1,177 were from the Arizona.
Today, February 18, 2010. Approximately 9 AM, We, Exchange Student, had a great opportunity to visit the Pearl Harbor History Sites, inside has places where we can think back to bring back one's mind to understand the anguish of the victim's family. We took a shutter boat to the memorial in the other side of the river, where has a wall which full of the name of the soldier who died in that incident. Under the Memorial is the Arizona Battle Ship that sunk since 1941, never move, and we still seen the leaking oil from the ship, many people believed that the ship is crying. Then we went to the theater that illustrates us about the attack on Dec 7, 1941.
We took the bus from the Pearl Harbor to Palace of the King of Hawaii, and heard some story about the King, Queen and that Palace too. Before we move on, We took the group pictures in front of the statue of King Kamehameha I.
Lunch, today we ate at the mall where we went last night, and we had some shopping time.
In the afternoon, Social Project time!, we invited by the USS Battleship Missouri, the ship that took place of the end of World War II. This museum ship sailed from California to Hawaii on 1998. We helped them by moved stuff from office on land up on the ship, set up place for the event, and cleaned some part of the ship. After we finished, we have a special permission to go in and see 1940s crew bed and Radio communication center that some of them still use it nowadays. We really have a good time over there.
After that we came back to the hotel, to get ready for dinner, this evening we had buffet restaurant, not too far from hotel, walkable distance. After dinner, we have sometime to walk around Waikiki beach. Finally, we had a meeting for tommorow plans and then Bed Time.
But remember one thing, the war never has a winner, both side losing people, and are you going to happy from the victory that came from tons of death.
Aloha & Mahalo
Kohung
Thatchanont Jirasupangkul
Thailand
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