Journal Entry #5

The historical event that I wish I could have witnessed is, the attack on Pearl Harbor. I would not really care to witness the attack and all its gruesome detail; moreover I'd be interested in how our nation reacted to such atrocity. I would have liked to see how the nation pulled itself out of utter despair and disastrous loss, to more or less completely end not just the war with Japan but in fact rallying to end the war that was raging throughout Europe. It is in the most desperate of times that we truly find out who you are as a person and what your capable of. The most iconic image that I believe epitomizes the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor would be a cornered animal. The reason I believe this is true is because we lost so much on December 7, 1941, that we really couldn't lose much more from a morale view. After that day we were fighting for not only our own lives and way of life but all those who had lost their lives that day.