Harper sat down with a hot cup of coffee when there was a knock on the door. She opened the door and standing before her was a man she didn’t recognize. “Sorry to just spring up on you like this but are you Harper Woods?” said the man. “Who is asking?” said Harper. “I’m Kingsley. I recently moved into a house in Lakeside and found this box in the attic. It was addressed to this house,” Kingsley said as he handed a box to her. “Thanks. Do you know who it’s from?” said Harper curiously. “Sorry. I have no idea. I didn’t open the box, I’m not one to invade privacy but I do have to get going now. Have a nice day and I hope you find out soon enough,” said Kingsley as he turned away from the door. Harper walked into her living room and placed the box onto the glass table. She opened the box and a wet, musty smell filled the air. There was a leather bound journal situated at the bottom of the box. She picked up the journal and blew off the dust. She opened the journal and began reading the age crinkled pages. The first page was titled “Alexander Woods”. ------------------------------------------ It was 1941 and I was located at Ford Island Naval Air Station located in Oahu, Hawaii. It was located in the middle of Pearl Harbor. I was awakened to the sound of explosions bombarding my ears. I quickly got up onto my feet and felt the ground tremble beneath me. I threw on my gear hurriedly with my fingers tightened around my gun and ran outside. There was commotion everywhere. I was aboard the USS Maryland. It was morning and we were under attack. I looked up at the sky and it was swamped with a string of planes heading towards the island. On the side of the plane, it was etched ... ... middle of paper ... ...ouse and the way my wife’s face lit up when I told her it was going to be ours. 20, Did my family still love me or want me to be apart of their lives? 18, They must really hate me. 15, My mind was racing. 12, There was a change in the atmosphere, I could feel it. 10, My legs were going numb as I inched closer and closer to the dreaded door. 9, My throat was dry. I really needed water. 8, I didn’t even know the first thing to say to my wife. I wanted her to know that my love for her was everlasting. 7, My stomach was doing somersaults now. 6, I was feeling really hot and stuffy. I couldn’t breathe in this sweater. 5, I was at my front door. 4, My hands were trembling now as I pulled out my keys. 3, I missed the keyhole. It took me a few tries to get it in. 2, With a slight turn, I opened the door. 1, Home didn’t feel so much like home anymore. I couldn’t stay.”
I was walking thinking about what I was gonna eat for breakfast when a large dark shadow flies over the ship. Before I can comprehend was going on, a explosion hit the USS Arizona directly behind us. I see many bombs hitting the Arizona and it suddenly becomes engulfed in flames. The ship burns and finally sinks to the floor of the ocean. The men on my ship sat there and tried to understand what had happened. I knew something was not right and I was very scared. I hear Admiral Kimmel, who is in charge of the base, send out a dispatch. He said, “AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” I became full of fear. Then, comes flying in a bomb directly hitting Turret III, and I thought my life was coming to an
As the narrator looked upon the polluted and disruptive town, he or she was reminded of a story about the former family that occupied the house that they were currently inhabiting. The narrator introduces the character Deborah; she was expressed as a hardworking, hunchback women who was married to a hardworking, factory worker named Hugh. One afternoon, a young girl from the around the neighborhood named Janey was sent to their home by Hugh. Deborah analyzed how young and beautiful Janey was; she realized that that was no longer her. This caused Deborah to be a bit jealous. Janey told Deborah how Hugh did not have his lunch with him for today. Concerned, Deborah walks for miles in the pouring rain just to make sure that her husband has his
At 0800, we were ten to twenty miles away from the target when a twin-engine enemy fighter attacked us over the island of Kyushu. One of our engines caught fire, which required the crew to abandon. The engineer and I remained onboard and we continued our flight for another five miles until we lost a wing. We then bailed out and parachuted safely before the plane crashed near the town of Taketa. I evaded capture for eight hours. I was blindfolded, handcuffed, and taken by train to a camp.
...wis a little about her life before she entered the institution. She tells a story about how her and her father used to go duck hunting, but instead of using a dog to get the dead ducks out of the cold lakes, her father used to make her go out and fetch the ducks. This helps to enhance Cherry’s role as a mental patient, as we are all left wondering if this story is true, or if it merely a story with small bits of truth, concocted by Cherry’s own mind.
On December 7th, 1941, Japanese aircrafts attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor (Axelrod 148). Before this, the United States had not entered World War II, but this changed everything. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, which consisted of two waves. By the end of the day, many United S...
Allen, Thomas B. Remember Pearl Harbor: American and Japanese Survivors Tell Their Stories. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2001. Print.
It’s a beautiful sunny morning, on a tropical island that everyone would love to take a vacation at. It’s approximately 6:00 am, December 7, 1941, when a first group of 181 kamikaze planes attacked; targeting key naval bases stationed at Hawaii; a sustained crippling of U.S. naval forces for about 6 months. The death toll was 2,500. Out of the 9 battleships, 8 were heavily damaged by the assault on Pearl Harbor and out of the 8, three were unrepairable, USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma, and the USS Utah. 160 aircrafts were put out of commission, and nearly 130 were heavily damaged. This was the first incident in which there was an act of war, committed on U.S. soil, outside of the American Revolution and the Civil War. The world was at war, and the U.S. remained neutral until now. Before the attack, the U.S. was in great debate whether to enter the war or to stay out of it. The act of war forced the U.S. into the War and triggered a controversial debate in whether to retaliate against Japan with the use of nuclear arms.
At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time (12:55 p.m. EST) on December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes attacked the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, launching one of the deadliest attacks in American history. The assault, which lasted less than two hours, claimed the lives of more than 2,400 people, wounded 1,000 more and damaged or destroyed nearly 20 American ships and more than 300 airplanes. Almost half of the casualties at Pearl Harbor occurred on the naval battleship USS Arizona, which was hit four times by Japanese bombers. As we commemorate the anniversary of this “date which will live in infamy,” as President Franklin D. Roosevelt described it on December 8, 1941, explore five little-known facts about USS Arizona and the attack that plunged America into war.
On December 7th, 1941, to the astonishment of the United States, the Navy fleet at Pearl Harbor was unceremoniously attacked resulting in the immediate involvement of the United States into WWII. As a new day began over the U.S Navy’s Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines, slept peacefully fully unaware that their lives were about to be changed forever. The forces stationed on Oahu had no idea that they would soon be involved in the single largest attack on American soil, which would inevitably thrust the United States smack dab into the middle of World War 2. December 7th, 1941 began as any typical Sunday morning, that is, until shortly before 8 a.m. when the Japanese Imperial
It was a sunny beautiful day on the December 7, 1941, when citizens of the society were waking up to do their regular chores. This is the day that everyone will remember in the history of the world. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan happened in the early morning. The Americans were caught off guard by the Japanese fleet. The attack resulted in an outburst of horrifying deaths among Americans, including the loss of war fleets from the naval base. Resulting in Americans entering World War II, although they did not want to engage in World War II. “The “day that will live in infamy” ended with the deaths of over 2,400 sailors, Marines, and soldiers, along with the heavy damage and destruction of eight battleships.”1 After the devastating destruction on
On December 7, 1941 the ultimate disaster in the history of the United States occurred. “Pearl Harbor is a lagoon island on the island of Hawaii” . The deep-water Naval Base for the United States Pacific Fleet was docked and filled with United States servicemen. On that calm, Sunday morning the last thing expected was an attack. The United States had deciphered Japan’s code earlier about the surprise attack, but was too late to figure out the location. Since the attack by the Japanese was so awful, many lives were lost and the mindset of America was drastically changed. “2.335 servicemen were killed in this attack and 68 civilians” . Unprepared for this surprise attack, overhead Japanese planes and under water submarines were prepared to do major damage. Bombs were dropped on land, American planes, and ships. One was the greatly known USS Arizona, which sunk within seconds. Overall 9 ships were sunken and 21 ships were severely damaged. Under the command of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese successfully damaged the Pearl Harbor Naval Base.
I was age 30 and in the United States Navy and had been in the U. S. Navy for 11 years. I was attached to the USS Abraham Lincoln and we were currently in Honk Kong for a port visit. I remember I met a girl there and we spent the day together just had fun while she showed me around Hong Kong. I ended up asking the girl that I was with why she did some of the things she did in life. She explained that she came from a very poor background and that this was the only way she could get ahead. I remember seeing the sadness in her eyes and the hurt of doing what she did. It was at that moment something strange happen to me. I said some things to her, but what was odd was that it was like something speaking throu...
My grandfather was asleep one night on a Coast Guard cutter when another ship, a destroyer, appeared in the distance. The destroyer hit my grandfather's ship in the exact spot where he was sleeping. When he awoke, he found himself in the freezing water, watching his friends swim ashore to safety. They were leaving my grandfather there to die.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is a day that will remain infamous in the history of America. Although people know about the attack and remember it, they might not know as in-depth as Walter Lord narrates in his book Day of Infamy. Lord’s Day of Infamy is a vivid recounting of the events that occurred on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Lord articulates the story of Pearl Harbor, not only the actual bombing but also the planning involved on behalf of the Japanese and the aftermath associated with the bombing. Day of Infamy narrates all of the events in Pearl Harbor in a very concise 200 pages and it gives an hour by hour narration of what was occurring. The timeframe for his unfolding of the story is from 3:30 am on December 7, 1941 to 5:30 pm that same evening. At 3:30 most Americans were just lying in bed and relaxing on what seemed to them as just another Sunday morning. Some unlucky soldiers were at their gate post awaiting the arrival of some cargo ships. The soldiers on guard spotted a white light but when they shinned their spotlight on it the white light veered away. The soldiers dismissed it but they had no idea that it could have given them important information as to what Pearl Harbor was to undergo in the next few hours.
...her name, and a pink ribbon from her cap flutters down from the sky. In disbelief that even his own wife who he loves had fell to yet the same temptation everyone else in the community had, the narrator has an epiphany. Instead of reaffirming him and his wife’s Paritan beliefs and impurities, the next morning the narrator exits the woods and returns to his Christian village, and every person he passes seems evil to him. The change of heart he had in the forest left him unassured of himself as well as no longer being able to trust anyone, even his own wife. This overall leaves the protagonist in and harassed and unhappy state.