Black Rain Tears on Pearl Harbor Tours

It rains almost every day in Hawaii, and many of my tour Pearl Harbor, I have this guide downpours that have experienced the tropical heat and the smell of air to cool afternoon with frangipani and jasmine. The Hawaiian language is almost a hundred words for the word rain, as the case of rain, the direction of rain, the breadth and depth of rain, and so on.

Visiting the Arizona Memorial in Oahu, I was reminded of how close the Hawaiian word forrain, "among others" is the Hawaiian word for the cry: "EU".

The Arizona Memorial is located above the point where the battleship USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 sunk. It is said that this site is the resting place of 1,100 soldiers who have met their end in Arizona in a surprise attack by Japanese planes.

To date, there are no oil leaks from the USS Arizona, a little black bubbles to the surface in the formTears. These are known as the "Black Tears".

Roosevelt called the attack on Pearl Harbor "a day that will live in infamy." 7. December 1941 to live in a time when America lost some of its innocence, some of his invulnerability. The islands of Hawaii have been in a place of martial law, and many Japanese-Americans lose their freedom as businesses and institutions within the United States ended the movie on the mainland.

The war was brought to the Pacific, and in many placesthe region, who had a quiet and peaceful tropical existence before the Japanese, did not have the luxury and tranquility.

It 'hard to imagine besieged Hawaii, with the launch and landing strips blown up and sunk file warships. We can see in the film history books, reading, but not until they actually sit on the Arizona Memorial, to the top of the deep blue Hawaiian sky, the fighters who feel the sounds of JapaneseJets must feel and how the earth shook and the ocean when the bombs whistled and shouted.

The attack on Pearl Harbor seems far away, a different life before. But today there is greater security during the tour, and said the bags are not allowed on the USS Arizona Memorial, said that history has a way of repeating itself. We are still vulnerable and still lives in danger, and the Americans are still under attack.

The rain falls in Hawaii and a poetsay the gods or cry tears falling from the sky. This type of rain ", etc.," is about reflection. But if we look down the black tears of Pearl Harbor, "EU", it is not forgotten. It is recalled.