Pu‘uloa Huaka‘i 2016-17 by cady uyeoka

Naiʻa Nahina #12

2016-09-16 21:56:05 UTC

One thing that has changed my perspective is understanding what the Japanese-Americans went through. They weʻre put through internment camps and those who weʻre not weʻre teased, pushed around, and under pressure ALL THE TIME. The only reason the Americans locked the Japanese-Americans up was because they weʻre Japanese and because they thought the Japanese-Americans were going to send messages and signals over to Japan and planning another surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

Another thing that changed my perspective is when we learned about propaganda in Mrs. Sharerʻs class. I learned that the government was using propaganda to fool the American public into thinking that the Japanese-Americans were being treated in a way they were not. To me "propaganda" is just another way of saying I kind of sort of am half lying. The government was saying that the internment camps were a good place and they had nice rooms and good food. The truth is they did NOT. The internment camps were the opposite of what the government said they were. They were living in horse stables that were very stink and dirty, and they had to bring only the things that they needed like clothes and shoes and they couldn't bring any of their beloved items.

The final thing that changed my perspective is how some of the Japanese-Americans reacted to how they were treated by the military. When some Japanese-Americans first tried to join they were all denied because of their race/ancestry but later when the army asked again a lot of them were still motivated enough, just by true loyalty and patriotism to fight for their country, America.

Some connections & knowledge (manaʻo) I want to share is about the 4 books I've read and my field trip to Puʻuloa or Pearl Harbor. When I went to Puʻuloa and heard the story of the men on the U.S. Arizona and how they were innocent and least expected it. It reminded me of reading the book "Shin's Tricycle". They are the same type of incident where innocent people die out of hatred or revenge for the country or land. Another thing I remembered is that in PHC (Pearl Harbor Child) is that she talked about how her mom never let her see hotel street becauseshe didn't want her to see all the tattoo shops and bars. I made a text-to-text connection. I made it because in HOTRF (House of the Red Fish) it says that when Tomi went to hotel street he said he found ______ tattoo shop and a bunch of others too. Also in both stories they mentioned curfues, block warrants, gas masks, Japanese-Americans changing their names to English names, and strict new military government rules.

Now that I have learned all this new information it has inspired me to make sure another event in history is not played out like this all over again. So AMERICA hear me NOW please do NOT take 40-50 YEARS to apologize. LEARN from your mistakes do NOT REPEAT them and make LAME EXCUSES because no you are NOT for given (well, at least by me)!!!!!!!!!!!

Kapua #18

2016-09-16 21:56:06 UTC

My perspective on the bombing of Pu'uloa or Pearl Harbor has changed a lot. At first I thought that Pearl Harbor was just a place that the Japanese had bombed and that it was a shipyard with big boats but now it seems different. It has changed because of these reasons.
In Mrs. Sharrer's class I learned that the Japanese had gotten kicked out of their houses, they had to quit their jobs and they're bank accounts had gotten frozen. I also learned in Mrs. Sharrer's class that the Japanese had gotten treated very badly. For example, they had gotten numbers for their family and weren't called by their real names, they had to live in horse stables that were very stink and dirty, and they lastly had to bring only the things that they needed like clothes and shoes and they couldn't bring any of their precious things.
I learned in "Under the Blood Red Sun" that the Americans had called the Japanese "Japs" during that time of war. Also in "Under the Blood Red Sun" there was a scene where Papa and Grampa had gotten taken away just because they were Japanese even though they didn't do anything. From that I learned the the Japanese were getting treated unfairly in that time. Lastly in "Under the Blood Red Sun" there was a part where Papa's boat had gotten shot at just because it was a boat sailing out in the ocean coming back to the Harbor. Also Papa and all the other boats out there had to have an American flag waving so that the military knew they were apart of Hawai'i and not doing any spying for Japan and lastly from that I learned that the military was not very careful and that they were very unfair.
I also got to learn from our Huaka'i that the U.S.S Arizona had gotten bombed from the Japanese on their first ammunition magazine and blew up. I also learned why the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and not just to make the United States and Oahu people scared. I also now know that the Arizona battleship is still here today but is sunken and that there is a memorial perpendicular to the ship remembering the people that had sacrificed their live to save ours. I also learned that roughly 429 men had died on that ship that day just because they were doing what they were trained to do. That and the bombing had lead the United States going into War.
Lastly in "Pearl Harbor Child" I learned that people had to wear Gas masks that were very big and heavy for little children. I also learned that the you had to give the banks your money so that they could stamp Hawaii on it and that no one would use the money out of the country to buy bombs and weapons that could be used against them. I also learned that people had black-outs and curfews, if you went out after a certain time and got caught by military people or people who come out and shoot any moving thing they see then you would get into big trouble. I also learned that people who owned markets and stores would only let 3 people go in at a time so that everyone wouldn't take all the food at once. Also the owners would just start to let family and friends cut in front of other people so they wouldn't have to wait.
Now that I have learned all of this new information my perspective of Pu'uloa has changed. I now have compassion and understand more for other people who got affected by the war, including the Japanese-Americans and all that they have been through. I now think of Pearl Harbor as a place for peace and a remembrance of all the people that had died fighting back to Japan and the planes. I lastly think that this is a place to reflect on the past, to learn and be more prepared, and to honor the dead.

Eastlynn #9

2016-09-16 21:56:07 UTC

When I went on our hauka'i to Pu'uloa I learned why Japan bombed Pu'uloa. Pu'uloa was bombed because they both wanted Indo Asia but only one country could have it so that is why Japan bombed Pu'uloa but Japan could have bombed anywhere but they bombed Pu'uloa.

My perspective changed because I first thought that the Japanese American people weren't affected only the Japanese people were (with them going to the interment camps and all of that what happening). In Pu'uloa rotations Mrs. Sharer's taught me what propaganda means. I realized is that the Japanese American people didn't go to the interment camps and were stuck with the Americans. Which Japanese American people had to listen to the racism even though what they were a American but they looked Japanese. The Japanese American was innocent and had nothing to do with the bombing of Pu'uloa . So I felt bad that the Japanese American people couldn't do anything

Under The Blood Red Sun changed my perspective because when they took Papa and Grampa Joji, Tomi was very strong and chose very smart decisions. I know now that Japanese Americans are smart and they know how to deal with people that are being racist they know how to ignore people because they know it's not true. I know now that Japanese American people know how to deal with people who is wrong you just ignore them. I feel much better because the Japanese American have a option at least.

Pearl Harbor Child changed my perspective because people needed to be in by dark as their curfew or else they could be shot they also couldn't show any light or the military could shoot out the light so people just covered there windows with black. They also had to save money because they still had to pay food and water. People needed to get uses to a new enviroment

Jaydee

2016-09-16 21:56:07 UTC

My perspective about the bombing of Pu'uloa has changed. Before I didn't really think Pearl Harbor was important to people and I just thought it was a place for military but after the field trip I understood why people were so sad and worried. Now I think of it like a church because churches protect or let you say what you want to say and no one else will know and Pearl Harbor protected us and our people. Do you think the USS Arizona Memorial is a peaceful place or a war place? I think its a place of peace because people died and they got buried there and we have to respect them and give them peace and not war. At Pearl Harbor I got to see what bared wire actully looked like and learned what was the route that the bombing planes when. At the U.S.S Memorial I learned that its a special and peaceful place. I also got to feel to be in a shooting machine.

In Mrs.Sharrer's class I learned that innocent Japanese-Americans got sent to interment camps because they were Japanese. Also the Americans was worried that the Japanese-Americans will help the Japanese that were going to bomb Pearl Harbor. Some of them had to stay in the interment camps for 5 years. But remember they didn't have good food, good living or they just didn't get treated well. There was no way they can escape because there was barbed wire all around it and there was guards. Also everything was lines. To get food, entertainment and more.

In Pearl Harbor Child I learned that when it was blackout no light get travel out the house and they had to either paint the windows black or cover it with something black. Also they made bomb shelters that was very dark and scary. In Under The Blood Red Sun they made a bomb shelter that that was scary and had centipedes. Also they put bared wire along the cost line.

In Under the Blood Red Sun I learned that after the bombing of Pearl Harbor curfews started. People couldn't be out after curfew but if they were they either get shot or arrested.

Kūpa'amauloa #7

2016-09-16 21:56:08 UTC

My perspectives have changed after researching and reading about the event. Before I read "Under the Blood Red-Sun" and "Pearl Harbor Child" I had no other knowledge about this event other than it was during World War II. Now that I have read this book I understand a lot more. I know much more about how this event changed lives and families as a whole.

I had no idea that this event was as life changing as I thought it was. When I was reading "Under the Blood Red-Sun" I realized that they all had curfews and they needed to make sure that they didn't show light coming from them. Also, I had no clue that they still had to work right after the bombing. if they were Japanese. When I was reading "Pearl Harbor Child" I learned that the Japanese-Americans were targeted as an enemy to the Americans.

Something else that changed my perspective is that Japan bombed Pu'uloa because they wanted power over Oahu. I think this is very unfair. Many Japanese were sent to interment camps. The interment camps were very, very dirty. However, I learned that the Americans used propaganda to make others think it was a beautiful place and they weren't imprisoned.
I realized that they all had to have bomb shelters in case of another bombing. Many people didn't have the money to get someone to make one, so they most of them just had to dig one. Some people didn't have the time to do that either. It must of been hard to have to make time to build a bomb shelter with the curfews and other laws they have to follow.

Also, the kids had to have gas masks on them at all time. The masks were very heavy had it's just more things you would normally want to carry. I even learned that over 2,000 people died that day. I think that it is a lot of families with a missing family member. My perspective has grown a lot after reading the books and researching it.

Shydel #5

2016-09-16 21:56:09 UTC

I learned that when the bombing was over they bared all of the crew members with the ships they served on so they can be with that ship forever because they put allot of work into taking care of it and if you stay there enough than you can see that there is still oil coming up from the boat and I thought it was amazing to see the oil still coming up because the ships sank along time ago and there still oil coming out but at first I thought there was people under the water dumping the oil out than when I saw the fishes than I knew there was know one under there because than there would be no fish living by all the sunken ships they would all be dead and when we got to the part when we saw all the names of survivors and people that died and when I saw that I was really shocked because I never knew that more than 200 people passed away in one day.

Mrs. Sharrer taught us about when the American's were locking up all of the Japanese - American because the American's were scared and though that the Japanese - Americans were going to send messages and signals over the radios and the Americans were scared that the Japanese - Americans would be planning another surprise attack on america and they had to live in horse stables and had to live in little houses that had thin walls and sometimes it was hard to sleep because there was people snoring really loud or there was people playing music to make like they were still at there own house and what I learned about under the blood red sun was that Tomi would've died if Grampa Joji didn't wave the Japanese flag then they would've gotten bombed and there wouldn't be a house of the red fish book.

From the book Pearl Harbor Child I learned that they had a blackout time and you only can drive or walk around at night after blackout time if you have a pass if not than your going to the interment camps because your not following the rules that they made I think they made those rules because they didn't want to have everyone running around the street and getting in trouble for being to loud or stealing because that's whats happening in these days. I also learned that when it was blackout time they painted there windows black so the light couldn't get out because if it did than they would get in trouble and might sent them to the interment camps.

Chaseton #17

2016-09-16 21:56:09 UTC

One thing that has changed my perspective is understanding what the Japanese-Americans went through. One detail was from Under The Blood Red Sun when Grandpa Joji and Papa got token away because they were Japanese. Another thing was in Pu'uloa rotations and in Mrs. Sharer's class and she told us about propaganda and what the Japanese-Americans had to go through when they got put in the internment camps. The Americans used propaganda to tell the public that the Japanese- Americans were in a good place and they had nice rooms and good food. Lastly I learned at the Hu'aka'i why the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and not just to make the people on O'ahu scared. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor because in Pearl Harbor there was one of the biggest fleet of ships stationed there, and the Japanese knew that fleet was to stop the Japanese from invading lands. They thought if they bombed the fleet than they would have time to take over the land they wanted.

Another thing that changed my perspective of Pearl Harbor is first I thought that it was a place of war but now I know that it's a place of piece. I got some details from the field trip because when we were watching the movie and when we went in the Memorial, I noticed that it was there so people can notice that this is what happens when we have war. Another detail is from Pearl Harbor Child and it told me that people lived there like regular people and it wasn't always a naval base for war.

The last main idea that changed my perspective is when I learned about the different perspectives. In Pu'uloa rotations I learned the different perspectives an that everyone has different reasons about things. And in Under the Blood Red sun I learned that to Japanese-Americans they thought it wasn't fair for kids parents to get taken away from them. But on the American side they thought it was just for the safety for the land and the country. I also learned that people have reasons for what they do and since the field trip I know why the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and why it was such a big event in that time.

Some more information that I learned in Pearl Harbor Child is that people went fear shopping and even babies had to wear gas masks. Lastly I learned that the publics bank accounts were seized so the military can buy weapons. Also I learned in the Pu'uloa rotations that people have different ways of doing things and looking at things like land and money. Lastly I learned that people had to go through hard times not only the military. They had to go through prison camps, money and curfews. I learned that from Under The Blood Red Sun.
All these new learnings shaped my perspective about Pu'uloa or Pearl Harbor. I now now why these things happen and I know more about that time.

Jonathan #15

2016-09-16 21:56:09 UTC

One thing that changed my perspective on Pu'uloa has was. Really understanding how the Japanese-Americans felt when they Americans treated them bad. Inside the book Under The Blood Red Sun Grampa Joji and Papa was taken away to interment camps and even though the Americans may have said that the place they were going to was a multi-million dollar place to die for it really wasn't what they said . Now I understand how the Japanese-Americans felt when the Americans sent the Japanese-Americans to interment camps. In Mrs Sharrer's class we learned what it was like at the interment camps, fIlthy, dirty, stinky and more. Not only did Americans treat Japanese-Americans bad they also told them propaganda/fake info.

Another thing that has changed my perspective of Pu'uloa is that at first I thought it was just a regular place that was bombed. But over time i've learned that this wasn't just an ordinary place it was where the top ships such as USS Arizona and the USS Oklahoma both sunken in deep horror. Now that I know the ships sunken there and the people who risked their lives just for us I truly am proud to be a part of America.

The last thing that changed my pespective of Pu'uloa was my huakai to Pu'uloa and the memorial. Truly learning what happned to the USS Arizona. One hit and the ship sank. So many Americans died that day and well the USS Arizona was burning that forced Franklin D. Roosevelt to take part in World War 2.

After learning all this information that I didn't know about that changed my perspective I now have understanding for those who were in World War II and the people who risked their lives just to save ours. Now I feel that Pu'uloa is not a place of war but a place of peace and respect for the people who fought back and never gave up. This is a place of honor and that shall always be.

Kana'i#4

2016-09-16 21:56:10 UTC

A couple of ways that my perspective changed about Pu'uloa is when I was in Mrs.Sharer's class in rotations. The first way that my perspective changed is once I saw the video I saw that Japanese fighters bombed us I thought their jerks and then I saw that we bombed japan with an atomic bomb and americans put Japanese-American people in internment camps so now I think we are even.

Another thing that changed my perspective is that when we went to the memorial I saw that it was a place of peace to remember all the people who was fighting for our country. The third thing that changed my perspective is in Under The Blood Sun people had to have ids and they had to carry their gas masks every ware they went. A connection is that in Pearl Harbor child to they had to carry gas masks too.

The last thing that changed my perspective is after Reading the books Under The Blood Red Sun and Pearl Harbor Child I learned that once the Japanese bombed us parents and grandparents got taken and got put into internment camps. Another thing I learned is that once Japan bombed us everyone had curfew. A curfew is when you can't go out side after dark. The last thing that I learned is listen to your parents because in the book Under The Blood Red Sun Tomi had to find Kimi's doll and Mama said not to turn on the light but he still did and one of the Navy people shot at the house.

'Ale'a #2

2016-09-16 21:56:11 UTC

My perspective of Pu'uloa changed a lot . Before I thought Pu'uloa was just a battle site in a war with a lot of fighting. I only knew that Pu'uloa was bombed by the Japanese and that started World War II for the United States.

Mrs. Sharrer taught us more about the life that people had during the war. She told us that all Japanese- Americans had to be sent to internment camps because after the Japanese bombed Pu'uloa everyone became worried and thought that all the Japanese people were spies and were on the Japan side of the war. I learned how badly the Japanese Americans were treated.

After reading "Under The Blood Red Sun" I learned that parents and grandparents were "taken away" from their keiki (children). It is so sad to think that your mom or dad could ever be taken away from you. Finding out that it didn't just happen in the book, but actually happened in real life to people who could've been my ancestors made it more real and sad for me.

When I read "Pearl Harbor Child" I learned that people had to carry gas masks around everywhere with them because they thought that the Japanese poisoned the air. I also learned that there was a curfew and at night you couldn't turn on any lights in your house and basically had a black-out every night. Things were really hard for everyone living in Hawaii at that time.

Lastly, at the huaka'i I learned that a big bomb struck the USS Arizona in one hit and the ship sank. The Arizona Memorial is perpendicular on top of the ship to honor all of the people that died on the ship that day. So many American lives were lost that day, which forced the United States to take part in the war.

After learning all of this new information, my perspective on Pu'uloa has changed. I have more understanding and compassion for all of those that were affected by the war, especially the Japanese- Americans. I now feel that Pu'uloa is not a place of war, but a place of peace and respect for others that died fighting back when the waves of planes attacked. I also think that it is a place to reflect on the past, learn for the future and honor the dead.

Samantha#23

2016-09-16 21:56:11 UTC

My perspective changed when I first started reading "Under The blood red Sun" my perspective thought that Japanese were being treated bad until I relized that during the war there was some peace and some war but some people risked there lives during war world 2.

Japanese Americans were betrayed by both countries when the bombing happened Japanese Americans were living in pearl harbor America put them in internment camps which made them be seperated from there families and when they wanted to go to war they couldn't.

So during reading both books my perspective now relized that in the book "The tricycle" America also killed innocent people on japan by dropping the atomic bomb which killed families poison the water and burned everything.And from the book "Under The Blood Red Sun" Japan made the attack which was wrong because it made the fighting spirit of america show so my perspective is thinking if Japan didn't attack pearl harbor than America would have not shown it's fighting spirit.Japan made an cause which made an effect

Hoakea Salter #20

hoakeakamanaolana_salter — 2016-09-16 21:56:13 UTC

>>>A way my perspective changed is before I thought that the Japanese just wanted to fight and expand but after the field trip I learned that they sent a diplomat to the U.S.
<<< another way is when the Japanese attacked they had a much bigger plan than just Puʻuloa. the plan enabled the to be able to control the sky and the water.
>>>a thing that i learned is that we used Puʻuloa before then for fishponds we also used it for helping ecologic growth. the americans got pearl harbor because of the foreigners who overthrew the government.
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Brady #1

2016-09-16 21:56:13 UTC

My perspective of puʻuloa has changed greatly. I now understand what happened through the Japanese immigrants. The Japanese-Americans had it hard, having the Japanese bombing pearl harbor. In "Under The Blood Red Sun" Tomiʻs papa had to be sended to a interment camp because he was a Japanese Immigrant. In Mrs. Sharrerʻs class, we learned what it was really like inside the interment camps because the U.S.A goverment was pulling a Propaganda on the public. They wanted to let the public know that the Japanese Americans were fine and were at the most luxuriest relocation camp ever to be made. The Governer said that it had the best of foods and really good quality in everything, but the Japanese Americans had very little and terrible food. Their were long lines for everything. It was terrible listening to your neighboor saying things and listining to music because the walls were very thin and you could here everything that your neighboor does. Thats what I learned on what the Japanese-Americans perspective on Pearl Harbor.

My perspective on Puʻuloa changed to. In Kumu Fariazʻs class, we learned that the real name was Puʻuloa. She also Taught us that its was named that before King Kalakaoa let America use Puʻuloa as a shipyard for their attack ships. He made a contract With America saying that Hawaiʻi ships in suger for free and America gets exclusive use of Puʻuloa. Then,after time, the name was changed to Pearl Harbor after Americaʻs usage of Puʻuloa.

My perspective on pearl harbor changed to. I barely even knew what happened at pearl harbor. But, I learned from our huakaʻi to Puʻuloa is that pearl harbor was famous because of The Bombing Of Pearl Harbor. It Comes Along with the U.S.S Arizona memorial, memorizing all the fallen heroes and that passd away in the bomb, or they lived on after the bombing, but died later in their years.

That is all of the different perspectives on Puʻuloa and how it changed through learning by book or by teacher and by going to a memorial to commemorate what happened on that day of the bombing.

Evan#8

2016-09-16 21:56:13 UTC

Before I started learning about pearl harbor I thought Pearl Harbor was just a famous place because it got bombed by the Japanese. But after hearing stories and different sides of the story about Pearl Harbor I came to knowing that pearl Harbor wasn't a place of horror and war but a place of peace. Because of all the brave soldiers out there that risked their lives for us. When our class went to Pearl Harbor the teacher told us to bring flowers an lays. For all the people who risked their lives for us. Isn't flowers and lays supposed to represent Aloha and peace.

Another way my perspective changed from before I learned about Pearl Harbor and after I learned about Pearl Harbor is the reasoning for the the bombing of pearl harbor. I learned why the Japanese bombed Pearl harbor and their perspective on it. I learned that the Japanese were discriminated and bullied after the bombing of pearl Harbor. Just because their race bombed Pearl Harbor.

The final way my perspective changed after I learned about Pearl Harbor is that now I feel bad for all the hero's in war that risked their lives for the safety of our country. I also feel more compassionate to the people that still protect our safety even today. All of the fire fighters, police officers, and everyone in the military. This is how my perspective changed on Pearl Harbor.

These are the ways my perspective has changed about Pearl Harbor.

Kili #21

2016-09-16 21:56:15 UTC

Learning about Pu'uloa and different perspectives and there thoughts about the bombing and what has happened and how has it changed 'Oahu, has changed some of my thoughts.

First I thought Pu'uloa was just a place that Japan bombed and but really never realize that people died as a hero for us. I really never thought about it in a way that so many people died fighting and showing there love for the country and showing there a true American. THEY DIED AS A HERO!! We should praise them!

In Mrs. Sharrer's class I learned that innocent Japanese-Americans got sent to interment camps for the cause of the Japanese actions. Japanese-Americans were targeted by the Americans because Americans were scared. A book that I read "Under the Blood Red Sun" Papa and Grandpa Joji got taken away to different parts of the world and got split up from there family to old horse stalls and dirty smelly gross rooms and eaten alive by misquotes.

Another thing I learn in Mrs. Sharrer's class was that the Americans used propaganda for the American public judgment on were the the Japanese-Americans, saying that the interment camps were multimillion-dollar rooms that were a paradise trips on vacation and that the food, rooms and ect. were perfect and cozy and something everyone would want to go to for vacation. The Americans said that Japanese-Americans weren't prisoners just disabled people. But only the Japanese- Americans knew what it felt like and how you would be treated if you were there and knew they were prisoner because it felt like prison.

I also learned from "Pearl Harbor Child" and "Under the Blood Red Sun" that there were black outs that made the night dark as a black cat tip-toeing in the silent night. When a light was turned on in the night and made a slight light a solider would shoot it out so it wouldn't work anymore because the Americans were scared that the Japanese would see the light and bomb 'Oahu again. So Americans were BIG on the NO LIGHTS RULE!!

In addition the Huka'i I went to, (the Arizona Memorial). I learned why Japan bombed 'Oahu. Japan bombed 'Oahu because 'Oahu stopped selling oil to Japan. I think that the reason Japan bombed Pu'uloa could have got solved a different way in stead of bombing Pu'uloa. They could have just asked and settled it with peace and kind words.

Finally, I thought Pu'uloa was bombed by Japan for a reason and not just because Japan wanted power over 'Oahu but just because America stopped selling resources to Japan so that is why Japan bombed Pu'uloa and not just because they wanted to show there power and start World War2 with America.

Now that I know all these perspectives I now know that Japan had a reason to bomb Pu'uloa

Kyree #14

2016-09-16 21:56:16 UTC

My perspective changed because I know why the Japanese bombed pearl and not any one elese and what it was before they changed into Pearl Harbor. I learned a lot about Pearl Harbor. The last thing I learned that I wanna tell you is that I learned that How it changed our island what kind of differnce it made in use. These are the thing that I tought that was the most important to me and that I could write about.

I did not know that Pearl harbor had a memorial for people to go to. At first I did not know what pearl harbor was before this all hapend. But know i know from learning about it and going to it. I know that it was a fish pond before all of this hapend. They changed in to Pearl harbor because the fish pond was not doing any thing. That is what I learned about what it was before. I learned that from Mrs. Sharrers class in her in her class we learned what it was a what hapend. I also learned it in Mrs. Awaiu we learned that what they did to the fish ponds and how they took care of it and what kind of fish ponds there were. Also what kind of people owned fish ponds.

The second thing I learned is that why the Japenese people bombed Pearl Harbor. I learned it from when we went on the feild trip to Pu'uloa or (Pearl Harbor) I learned it in many differnt ways I learned it from the movie we watche in the theater and the one in the otatorim. They told me in many different ways. The one in the theater was the one that I thought helped me really well. I the reason why Japan bombed Pearl Harbor is because they thought that our island did something to them when we really did nothing. The bombing sturk use 3 times and it was all at differnt times. The 3 strick of planes did use bad because we had already a lot of fire but sens they thought we needed more fire they came one more time. The bombing caused use a lot of deaths because some of the boates fleped over but the rest a bomb hit it. Some kids dad deid so they never even got to meet there own dad I also learne that Japan hit Pearl Harbor from Under The Blood Red Sun.

The last thing is how the bombing of Pearl Harbor affected us and what changed. When this happend all of the Japensse people had to go into interment camps and those camps were not good it was like torture to some people but they had to deel with it. They had curfews and if the gaurd saw any of them out they could have got shot. A examples is from Under the Blood Red Sun Tomi took a chance to swim while it was curfew and there was tug boats in the water and go swim to sand island to see Papa he took that chance because he could of got hit by the propelers or got shot by the gaurds. Ever since the bombing they have became strick but know I do not know what is on because there is no interment camp with gaurds or there is no cufew.

I learned so much about this That I could tell you more but i am not. From the bombing of pearl harbor to know it has changed a lot. I explained what is the most important thing I learned.

Lucas

2016-09-16 21:56:21 UTC

My perspective on the Bombing of Pu'uloa has changed in terms of the view of the Japanese-American immigrants that lived in Hawaii at the time. I received this change of perspective change by reading the books "Under the Blood Red Sun" and "Pearl Harbor Child". These books changed my perspective on subjects such as how the Japanese-Americans were treated, which was with discrimination not unlike that of the African-Americans of the time. Another way that these books changed my perspective on the Japanese-Americans living conditions of the time, which was in essence, thriftily, and responsibly. Its totally not like we could learn a lesson or two from that.

The second, most dramatic change on the was on the perspective of the aggressors, the Japanese people from the book "Shin's Tricycle" in which the horrors of war, had largely missed Japan, which was still lively and cheerful. However, it all changed with the dropping of the atom bomb, when Japan finally got a real taste of the horrors of war. I guess the correct analogy to this is a bully who doesn't know that they are bullying. Now that I think about it, at the time, Japan was under control by the military, with the "Emperor" a puppet. So I guess that Japan was a victim of its own bullying!

In conclusion, I believe that reading historical based books has changed my perspective overall, and I should read more of them.

Christian #19

2016-09-16 21:56:25 UTC

My perspective of Pearl Harbor has changed a lot. Before I didn't know why the Japanese had bombed us in the first place. I thought that Pearl Harbor was just a place that had gotten bombed, but now I know that it is a lot more now.These are three different reasons on how my perspective has changed, or evolved.

In Mrs. Sharrers class I learned that the Japanese American People were tooken out of their homes, had to go to places called internment camps, and got all of their bank acounts frozen. Some of the Japanese Americans stayed in the internment camps for up to five years. A connection is in Under the Blood Red Sun Papa and Grandpa had got tooken away because of the fact that they were both Japanese.

After reading Pearl Harbor child I learned that kids and adults both had to carry there gas masks at all times. Today on our huaka'i to the Arizona memorial I saw a picture of kids wearing there gas masks, which was also in the book of, Pearl Harbor Child. Another connection is that in Under the Blood Red Sun Tomi and Billy always had to carry around their gas masks at all times, for safety reasons. While reading Pearl Harbor Child I also learned that people on Oahu during that time had curfews. No one could be out after a certain time. If you were then you could get the punishment of getting shot at. Also if you had any lights out after a certain time the police officers that were around had the right to shoot at the light source, so that the light would go out.

After reading Under the Blood Red Sun I learned that Parents, Grandparents, and friends were tooken away during that time period. I can't even picture in my mind how devastating it must have been for the family's at the time to lose one of their loved ones. In our huaka'i today I remembered how many had died that day in the year of 1941 when we watched the video about Pearl harbor in the museum.

In our Huaka'i today I learned that they had built the Arizona Memorial to honor all of the fallen crew members, and people who had died from the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I also learned that the Japanese had a specially made torpedo so that the Japanese could hit the ships, even though the water depth was only about 40ft.

After learning all of this my perspective on Pearl Harbor has changed a lot. Now I feel bad for the Japanese americans because now I know what they had to go through during and after the war. Some of the Japanese americans had lost their life's and some had to go to internment camps. Now I think that Pear harbor is a place of peace, but and also to honor all of the fallen HEROES.

Laney #13

2016-09-16 21:56:31 UTC

My perspective on Pearl Harbor, is that I had to understand how the Japanese-Americans felt, and not just pity myself about the bombing. The Japanese-Americans had a hard life during the war too. Some innocent Japanese-Americans had to go into internment camps. They had to go to internment camps just because they were Japanese. The Ary/Navy kept the Japanese-Americans in internment camps, was so that they were all contained in one area, and, so if they had an idea of "bombing again", they would be under the Army/Navyʻs eye. In Mrs. Sharrer's Puʻuloa Rotation, we learned about how propaganda was used to make people believe one side of the story, the side that wasn't true. The Japanese-Americans were angry, because they knew what it was actually like. The propaganda said that it was a luxurious place to live in. In reality it was a horse stable that smelled like horse poop. When the Japanese-Americans got out of the internment camps, they told the world about what the internment camps were really like. They wrote books, they wrote newspaper articles, they made videos.

While reading Under the Blood Red Sun, I learned that haole's, like Keet Wilson, called Japanese,"Japs". The Japanese who lived in America, like Tomi, were treated unfairly during and after the war because people grew suspicion of them being enemy spies wherever they went. In Under the Blood Red Sun, Papa's boat, the Taiyo Maru, got sunken, Papa got shot in the leg, and Sanji was killed because they didn't have an American flag on their boat.

In Pearl Harbor Child, I learned that everybody had to carry around gas masks, and ID's so that people could identify people easily. Another thing that I learned in Pearl Harbor Child, and also in Under the Blood Red Sun, was that they had cerfews. When it was cerfew, no lights cold be on, no cars could be driven, unless you had a pass for your job and a cover for the lights. If the light warden saw even a peep of light, he would call an army patrol car, and the army would shoot the light out.

After our field trip to the Arizona Memorial and Pearl Harbor, I learned that there wasn't only one attack. There were two waves of planes that came to attack O'ahu. The planes had different features. Some had torpedo's, some had dive bombers, and some had canons. Torpedo's are supposed to be launched in deep water, but the Japanese invented a new torpedo that could be launched in 30 feet of water. They also modified it so it could break through piercing armor, like the one on the USS Arizona. I also learned that when Japan came and bombed O'ahu, they didn't only bomb Pearl Harbor, but they bombed Ewa, Bellows, Hickam field, Pearl Harbor, Kaneohe Bay, and Wheeler field. I thought that they only bombed Pearl Harbor. In the Arizona Memorial, we saw all the names of people that risked their lives for us

Joby#24

2016-09-16 21:56:36 UTC

In my perspectives Pu'uloa has changed alotl like I have learned how the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and why they did it. I also learned that the Japanese had two waves of air planes. i also learned in. Mrs. Sharrers class I learned that the Japanese American were taken out of their homes, had to go to places called internment camps. I also learned that it is not just the Japanese fault it is also the Americans fault because we cut of and did not give them oil.

The Government said that it had the best of food and really good quality in everything, but the Japanese Americans had very little and terrible food.Another thing that has changed my perspective of Pu'uloa is that at first I thought it was just a regular place that was bombed. But then i've learned that this wasn't just an place that got bombed it was where the top ships such as USS Arizona and the USS Oklahoma both sunken.Some more information that I learned in Pearl Harbor Child is that people were scared of another attack so they went shopping and bought every thing they could buy and even babies had to wear gas masks.

I also learned from "Pearl Harbor Child" and "Under the Blood Red Sun" that there were black outs that made the night dark and they had to put a tarp over there windows

Mele #16

2016-09-16 21:56:57 UTC

My perspective of Pu'uloa or Pearl Harbor has changed a lot. I have learned more things about the place and why everybody loves to visit the Pearl Harbor. I learned different perspectives of the Japanese-Americans and the Americans. Other information that I learned about Pu'uloa are Pu'uloa rotations, "Under the Blood-Red Sun," our field trip to Pearl Harbor, and "Pearl Harbor Child". Here are some information that I learned.

First, I thought Pu'uloa was just a historical event because of the bombing that led us into World War 2. But there's more than that. The Americans after the war made a PEACEFUL memorial over the USS Arizona ship where you can HONOR the citzens for fighting for us. I also learned that the Americans that survived and died after the war got their ashes buried in the ship they mostly worked on. This was really cool to me because their ashes go on the ship and get buried where their shipmates are, if they didn't survive. The last thing I want to say about this place is that when or if you see the gas coming up from the boat, people like to say that the gas is the armies tears coming up from the boat. These are the cool and others sad parts that I learned about at our feild trip to Pearl Harbor.

I have also learned the Japanese-Americans and the Japanese perspectives at both school and Pearl Harbor. At Pearl Harbor, I learned why the Japanese bombed Pu'uloa. The Japanese bombed us, Hawai'i, part of the United States, is because if they wanted to conquer Europe I belive that had to get there so minus well bomb Hawai'i too. That would be a horrible cause because it came with a bad effect, innocent Japanese-Americans had to go to internment camps. This is what I learned at school in Pu'uloa rotations in Mrs. Sharrer's class. We learned that the Americans would not treat them fair. They treated them like numbers, had tongue sometimes for food, had thin walls that were hard to live at, and there was no escape. The Americans treated them so mean the the Presidents wife Eleanor Roosevelt states " They were marked as different from other races and they were not treated on an equal basis. This happened because in one part of our country they were feared as competitors, and the rest of our country knew them so little and cared so little about them that they did not even think about the principle that we in this country believe in----that of EQUAL rights for all human beings." The internment camps were dirty, inconvenece, and were horse stables. This was very unfortunate for the Japanese-Americans. It also came with racism. Japanese-Americans were targeted, made some Americans scared, and some Japanese-American were spies. Another thing that I learned is PROPAGANDA. The Americans says that there not prisoners, it is a safe place that is a multi-million dollar place. The Americans lied and used propaganda to make sure the Americans calmed down.

Some books I read like "Under the Blood-Red Sun" and "Pearl Harbor Child" helped me understand the bombing of Pu'uloa also. "Pearl Harbor Child" is about a girl that was alive during the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She is still alive I believe and she says that she will never forget that day. They had to have IDs and gasmask everywhere because you never know when you need it. In "Under the Blood-Red Sun" is a historical-fiction book. It talks about a Boy named Tomi and how he has to become the man of his family because both Papa and Grampa Joji got arrested and got sent to the internment camps, but his friends still treat him like a friend and not to metionthat he was Japanese. But things changed. We are reading "House of the Red Fish now and that is about all the curfews, gasmasks, and IDs after the war. Thise are just other examples of how we are learning about this place, Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor is a very important place full of information about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This is also an amazing historical event place that you can learn about a lot of events in history. This place is very interactive. You can touch and feel things that they had to do. This was very exciting and very peaceful because they based it off from the war and they made it a beautiful place. I still have some questions about Pu'uloa but I know that people will honor and love this place because of the historical event of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

NAKOA#10

2016-09-17 08:29:58 UTC

my perspective on the bombing of Pu'uloa had a lot of battle ships and it was very peaceful then they got bomb by the Japanese and that change everything everybody was more aware because the were scared that Japanese were going to come back and bomb them.Today I learned that there was more than just one ship and they had different names for them.
I learned that the Arizona memorial was a place of peace not war when we went to the Arizona memorial we all saw a big wall with all the people who help fight and risk there life for us. on field trip to the Arizona Memorial and Pearl Harbor, I learned that there was not only one attack. There were four waves of planes that came to attack O'ahu. In our Huaka'i I learned that they built the Arizona Memorial to honor all the members and people who had died from the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I also learned that the Japanese had made a torpedo so that they could hit are ships in the water.The water was only 40feet deep.I also learned they drop a atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Kala #11

2016-09-19 17:41:03 UTC

My perspective of Pearl Harbor has drastically changed after learning more about it. Some ways that my perspective have changed is when I viewed the Japanese-Americansʻ perspective in Under the Blood Red Sun. People were sent off to internment camps just because of they were Japanese and the American government thought that they could be spies or saboteurs. I did not know that so many Japanese-Americans were pretty much just locked up for no apparent reason. To make it worse the American people that locked up the Japanese-Americans used propaganda to say that they were being treated fairly when they really were not.
I also learned about the attacking Japaneseʻs side. They wanted to take over parts of the U.S. and a strategic way that they could do that is to cripple the fleet of the Americans then attack with full force and expand to the other side of the Pacific ocean. Then later an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and many innocent Japanese people died like how many innocent people died in the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Some of the things that these times taught us is that war is not worth all the lives that were sacrificed for a cause that is not that important. Even if it may seem like it, its not.

Kelliann Cruz #3

2016-09-20 03:06:05 UTC

My perspective after learning about the history of Pu'uloa has changed.
When i learned about the bombing of Pu'uloa, i was shocked that Japanese would bomb 'Oahu (and Hawaiian people) was a unexpected twist on our history (considering i am both Japanese and Hawaiian). It was a important thing that happened at Pu'uloa that has effected our lifestyle.

Another perspective that has changed is on the Japanese and the bombers because when Emperor Hirohito said Toro Toro Toro, only he knew were the planes were. If the planes did know were they were but didn't want to bomb us, it would not matter, the planes had no choice if they wanted to bomb us or not. It is not only the Emperor's fault, the Japanese bombers followed orders when they could say no to what he was saying

My last change of perspective is about how it is not only Japan's fault, we bombed Japan back to get equal with them. Although Japan bombed Pu'uloa, we bombed Hiroshima (on August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped uranium bomb) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945, U.S. dropped a plutonium bomb).