Jacqueline Laks Gorman’s purpose in writing this book was to give her audience insight into the Pearl Harbor attack. The author provides personal insights that sprouted from the effects of worst naval disaster in U.S. history. She provides context to help us understand the events as they unfolded. By giving the reader first hand accounts, Gorman is able to define the time and supply an understanding into the aftermath of “a date, which will live in infamy.”…
The United States Marine Corps War Memorial, depicts six Marines raising a 60 foot bronze flagpole. This monument is 78 feet tall over all, and cast in bronze, and weighs more than twenty tons. In addition, the figures on this monument are standing on a rock above a granite base, and the flag at the top of the pole flies at full mast 24 hours a day, 365 days a year by presidential proclamation.…
The United States Marine Corps Memorial “bka” Iwo Jima Statue is one the world’s most impactful monuments is built to symbolize the honor we give to our countries men who have fallen protecting the United States of America. This symbolic concrete cast bronze structure was created by, Felix de Weldon in memory of the American Marines who fallen for our country since 1775 dedicated in 1954. Standing at thirty-two feet tall and a flag pole of sixty-feet tall. The Swedish granite base it stands upon with the dates in a burnished gold writing stands in Arlington Virginia, in the United States. The memorial dedicated by president, Dwight Eisenhower; which was designed by designed by Horace Peaslee when it was brought to Washington, DC in 1954 has…
During the first half of the 20th century, humanity experienced two consecutive world wars that were among the deadliest in history. This was a new type of warfare that the world had never seen before. It had Napoleonic-style battles but, instead of muskets and swords, they used machine guns and tanks; which produced countless more casualties. This horrible period of tension and war left over seventy seven million people dead and countless wounded or lost. However, the few soldiers that survived were sometimes able to channel their postwar trauma into great works of art that show us the pure truth about war. Two good examples…
More than 450 ships formed off Iwo Jima. Rough volcanic sand disadvantaged the movement of men and machines as they struggled to move up the beach. As the protective naval gunfire dwindled to allow for the Marine advance, the Japanese emerged from their fortified underground positions to begin a heavy bombardment of fire against the invading force.…
The year was 1945, and the war was winding down. The US was working on rooting out Japan and ending the war. Because they were dealing with an island country, they had to find a way to get at them without flying long distances. Japan was trying to defend their land while still waging war on other countries. Iwo Jima, a small island about 650 miles away from Tokyo on Japanese soil, was needed by the US forces to end the war. Both countries were determined to fight long and hard for the island.…
In the interview, each veteran told their story with every detail of the war. They were telling about how it almost took their lives. For example, in the interview with Sammy L. Davis, he described the way the evening was, tense, since they were expecting an attack soon. It happened, on November 18, 1967 Cai Lay Vietnam and exactly at 2 o‘clock, everything started. He got injured in the back but went back to fight. He rescued three soldiers, including their sergeant, however, the sergeant died. After rescuing about 12 soldiers, he ended up with broken ribs and back but finally went home. Now, with veteran Robin, the war of Yong-dong Korea, started on July 23, 1950. On the interview, he told us how he wasn‘t a citizen but was in service for…
World War II was an inevitable war brought on by the unprovoked attack from Germany on Poland and anger fueled over World War I. Of all the battles in World War II, only one has not been justified. The battle of Iwo Jima, a Japanese island, occurred because of a rivalry between the Navy and the Army over who could get there first; this led to one of the bloodiest battles in Naval history and the eventual US victory of World War II.…
The Second World War, also known as WWII, set about in 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and would endure for the next six years. This war involved more than 30 countries composing the allied and coalition forces as well as that of adversaries. Objectives for this war comprised of the invasions of European and African states and the control of Asia. Concluding this war was the fall of Nazi Germany and the surrender of Japan in the summer of 1945. In the multitude of campaigns, the Battle of Iwo Jima had been part of the last Phases of the Second World War. Iwo Jima is a Japanese island located in the western part of the Pacific and lies approximately 760 miles to the south of Tokyo and roughly 575 miles from the Japanese cost.…
The Americans were invading Iwo Jima, which was being defended by roughly by 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops. Iwo Jima was located on an island of Japan. The Americans did, however, lose due to the fact that the Japanese had underground routes that were hard to find and used them to surprise attack them. This topic is important because it talks about one of the battles in history. The americans fought through to put the flag up. Some things in history made a big impact. Fighting against slavery, all the amendments, assassinations, and all the wars.…
The Vietnam War memorial is a wall covered with the most serious graffiti imaginable. It is a wall, but a human wall, a stone record of human flesh, its very hardness made of vulnerability (Johnson 1). This research paper is going to highlight the impact that the memorial has had on individuals that have visited the wall, the intention of the creation of the memorial, and how the memorial has changed individual’s perspectives of the Vietnam War after visiting the remembrance site. The Vietnam War was a tragedy for all who experienced it and it left a scar on America as one of the most traumatic wars in United States history.…
The history of war is what many spend time reading about in textbooks. Few, however, experience war and all that it encompasses. David Leckie, a marine during World War II, uses his book, Helmet for My Pillow, to share with readers the truth of what it was like to be a soldier. Rather than skimming the surface of his time on Parris Island and the Pacific Islands, he goes into unmatched, excruciating detail; every trench dug, every shot fired, and every fallen soldier passed was recounted by Leckie. Setting this story apart from any other, the first-hand accounts of combat, unlikely descriptions of the day-to-day actions of the soldiers, and the heart that Leckie intertwines with each part of his story all combine to make this thought-provoking,…
More than any artists we have met thus far, Constantin Brâncuși grew up poor, his parents peasants. The Romanian would, also, live a life of simplicity, continuing with the habits, cuisine, and religious practices of his forbears. Although versed in philosophy and friends with many names we have already covered, he remained folksy.Here, we will consider Brâncuși’s First World War memorial at Tirgu-Jiu entitled The Endless Column. Yet, appreciating the subtlety of Brâncuși’s world heritage piece means attending to how Romanian folk and Orthodox religious ideas influenced him.…
In the film Grave of the Fireflies, the director tugs at people’s heartstrings and forces them to look at World War II in a different light – too often, we forgot that the civilian casualty numbers are real, live people, and we tend to just look at them as a figure. In addition, a good part of this film takes place after the war has ended, which is a period that goes vastly un-talked about. People like to think that after the war officially ended, it was a time of joy for everyone, but sadly this just isn’t the truth for so many around the world, including many Japanese people, who lost their entire livelihoods.…
Global war is one of the defining features of twentieth-century experience, and the first global war is the subject of one of this period’s topics, “Representing the Great War.” Masses of dead bodies strewn upon the ground, plumes of poison gas drifting through the air, hundreds of miles of trenches infested with rats—these are but some of the indelible images that have come to be associated with World War I (1914-18). It was a war that unleashed death, loss, and suffering on an unprecedented scale. How did recruiting posters, paintings, memoirs, and memorials represent the war? Was it a heroic occasion, comparable to a sporting event, eliciting displays of manly valor and courage? Or was it an ignominious waste of human life, with little gain to show on either side of the conflict, deserving bitterly ironic treatment? What were the differences between how civilians and soldiers, men and women, painters and poets represented the war? How effective or inadequate were memorials, poems, or memoirs in conveying the enormous scale and horror of the war? These are among the issues explored in this topic about the challenge to writers and artists of representing the unrepresentable.…