Word: pearling
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Each short film had to incorporate, in one form or another, the character of child actor J. Withers, a pearl necklace, and the line, “I’m not really like this.” Furthermore, each team picks their respective genre out of a hat on Friday night, before production begins...
...Pearl Harbor is no excuse for Hiroshima. The Japanese attacked a military base; they did not incinerate downtown Honolulu. The atom bomb could have been exploded over Tokyo Bay, within sight of the Emperor. Even the flattening of Mount Fuji would have been preferable to carbonizing humans. Jake Cipris Millburn...
After reading the words of the Enola Gay's co-pilot ("My God, what have we done?"), I wondered if there was an equivalent sentiment from a Japanese officer who participated in the Dec. 7, 1941, destruction at Pearl Harbor. Gloria S. Cohen Norristown...
Some Americans, recalling the nearly 300,000 American casualties in the Pacific fighting that began with Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, felt the domestic memorials were misplaced. Others, including President Reagan, emphasized that peace and the elimination of weapons were not necessarily synonymous. "We must never forget what nuclear weapons brought upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki," said Reagan, "yet we must remain mindful that our maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent has for four decades ensured the security of the U.S. and the freedom of our allies in Asia and Europe." For most, however, it was simply a time...
...December 1941, within a few days of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Nazis began gassing Jews and Gypsies at a camp in Chelmno, Poland. More than 150,000 died there; two survived, and both offer their soul-scarred witness in Shoah. One of them, Simon Srebnik, was a boy of 13 at the time. Returning to Chelmno, he visits townspeople who were once enchanted by his beautiful singing voice. They also remember the screams of Jews locked in the local church before being taken away. At Treblinka, site of the Nazis' most efficient gas chambers, villagers recall standing...