World+War+II

**World War II Notes**
The whole thing to me is just crazy, the Americans were just getting over the great depression which ended in the late 1930's/ early 1940's, and already we were being attacked. To put yourself in the place of these people is just terrifying, knowing that the country would be going to war, having your husbands and sons taken into war. The events that these people had to go through, and the thought of mid they must have been in, thinking about this makes me appreciate they people who were in the war a lot more than i did before watching this movie. On Sunday December 7th 1941 Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was attacked by the Japanese. There were 164 aircrafts destroyed, and 2304 American's were killed. The news about the attack was being heard all over radios and news casts. The citizens of the country immediately it would turn into a fierce war. All Japanese people were hated, even if they had been in the state for years, all the American thought that every Japanese person was to blame for the attack. On December 8th Franklin Rosevelt gave a speech asking the congress to declare war. Italy, Germany, and Japan all formed the axis. The Americans declared war on December 8th, though the people didn't want to go to war, they knew it was something that had to be done. News reals were contunously showed about what was going on in the world and about he war. On September 1st 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, which was considered the start of the war. Poland and Italy declared war on Germany, after Hitler invaded Poland.
 * Day One**

Today we watched the Japanese attack, within such a short period of time the Japanese had concurred the entire Pacific coast. While watching the parts where the U.S were fighting against the Japanese I though about many things such as how they were surviving with the lack of items that help keep them alive. What about the soldiers fighting in Iraq, things are much better for them than the people who fought back them. They have better medical treatments now than they did back them. Its amazing to me how yet many survived even after walking for seven days on the Bataan Death March. If they survived the walk they were taken to Camp O' Donnell where they weren't feed properly and they caught several diseases. On bad days they would bury up to 250 men.
 * Day Two**

When serving in the war, all people know that there is a great risk that they are going die. Some only being at the age of seventeen you must think of what is going through their minds every second they are in war. Every time a shot is fired or a bomb is set of they are thinking that this may be the day that they will die. they had to leave their parents and family members, not knowing if they would ever see them again, or not knowing if they would be able to ever come back home. The men fighting in this war would have had families that they had to leave behind, and would have no choice if they would go and serve. How would you feel if you know at that young of an age that your life might be over?
 * Day Three**

In the movie today we saw a part called killing is a craft. When being shipped to fight the war there were soldiers who were scared to die and afraid to kill other people. The amount of dead bodies they would see, just all the violence in general frightened them. When going to the war the people had to face the fear of losing a family member or losing their own life. They had no choice in the matter, they had to be tough and keep their emotions as best they could to themselves. The men had to realize before even arriving at their destination that killing people was part of their jobs, and that when coming against the enemies it was their job to kill people too.
 * Day Four**

In the movie today we learned about the American troops fighting in Tarawa. A troop member named Babe, wrote letters to his family that were untruthful, they were all lies. Not trying to worry his family in the danger that he is in while fighting. Telling what was happening in the was horrific and was unspeakable. What Babe did was wrong lying to his family and friends, but he had a big enough heart to keep their hopes high and their worries small.
 * Day Five**

**Day Six** Even after the battle, fifty years later one man says that he would have rather come from from the battle with one less arm than leg, than without his brother. Being in the same situation I would have felt the same way. When having a brother or sister you have a special connection that you have with no other person, and with out that person in your life it can make things hard. Even harder if you saw their limb body, after they were killed in war, knowing that things could have been different that they could have had a better life if they wouldn't have went into the war. Though it was a job to kill the enemies, wouldn't someone have enough heart not to kill the men and reuin the bond between brothers?

Watching the movie today made me realize that the people in war have very great hearts. Even though they had a great cahnce of being killed they werent worried about themselves, but were worried about their friends. They feared that their friends would be killed, and they wouldn't have anyone else there for them. The people had no right to be treated the way they were. It wasnt only one persons fault, torturing one person isn't going to change the way the other countries feel. Abusing people would make no difference, but a rotting smell, and a mess. They needed to realize that each of them are just fighting for their country, if you were faced to faced with an enemy, and you harmed them would you like that done to you. One person isn't to blame its all of us, so killing people who hadn't caused this problem is usless and makes no sense.
 * Day Seven**