Beyond Pearl Harbor with Daniel Martinez
Word came the Pearl Harbor was being attack, my grandmother and my mom rushed out on the church step, so a huge power of smoke. My mom as a young child thought it was the greatest air show she ever seen. Later she found that that the air show was very deadly. December 7, 1941 marks the day and which the attack on Pearl Harbor took place, American lost lives that day, and America’s history was changed forever. We are the USS bowfin and this is the World War II submarine but surrounding is the Pearl harbor historic sites in particular the USS Arizona memorial were it all started with the Pearl Harbor attack. The USS Missouri Memorial is where the surrender was signed and we are all ended.
The USS Oklahoma Memorial, the newest edition to the Pearl Harbor story and then just beyond that the pacific aviation museum that is the place where the aviation story is told. People often focused on the Perl Harbor attack but actually it was the attack on Owahu. If you look deep enough, you can find traces of World War II all over this island. Aloha tower in 1941 was the tallest building in Honolulu and during the war they actually paint it camouflage on it to protect it. The Hawaii theater.
This where my mother came to watch movies and during World War II this were the service man came to get a taste of Holly Wood. This is Iolani Palace the home of the monarch up until the 1890s. During the war this was a sit of government for marshal law, behind this diamond head you can hike up there and actually see bunkers from World War II right behind diamond head , my mother and my grand my grandmother looked towards Pearl Harbor, saw hundreds of planes line over. They would never forgot that image.
It is being able to come here and see some of the things that they saw and feel perhaps some of the things that they felt that really does around so passion. The legacy that the monuments of Pearl Harbor of the behind is not only the history of what happened, but it is what happened to those people in the stories that we take from there and then doing so, to those memorials are alive.
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