Yossarian
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As a kid Musashi, along with Missouri are my two most interesting child hood day dreams. Built the darn things out of blocks, lego's what ever I could get my hands on. Drew them, stared blankly at the clouds outside my classroom window, oblivious to pre algebra and riding the waves on the decks of either ship exploring strange lands, or just sailing either to victory.
Wanted books filled with Missouri's Pictures, but with Musashi I was saddened then to not have nearly as much to feed my young imagination. Learning about these two great ships at that age snowballed from learning about the war, to East Asia, and much about my own country as well.
To basics of engineering, the oceans, and their currents and mysteries. About Yamato too, and also Iowa, America and Japan's pre war idea's , and differences, to America's occupation. To why and how we thought differently before and during the conflict, and how we have changed up until today.
Kinda amazing how something so simple as day dreams over two ships can can spark so much in a child that carries with us even as we age ?
Then as especially now, I hold utmost respect to all sailors who fought at sea during this most destructive conflict, as this video shows, modern mechanized warfare is brutal and destructive, maybe somehow these images of it's sown devastation will dissuade today's powers from repeating these mistakes and reliving these tragedies, and how we all service men, statesmen, and citizen have a common vested interest in deeply questioning whether we should or shouldn't go to war...
Enjoy.
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNMmqagTt90"]Musashi (武蔵) Expedition - YouTube[/ame]
As a kid Musashi, along with Missouri are my two most interesting child hood day dreams. Built the darn things out of blocks, lego's what ever I could get my hands on. Drew them, stared blankly at the clouds outside my classroom window, oblivious to pre algebra and riding the waves on the decks of either ship exploring strange lands, or just sailing either to victory.
Wanted books filled with Missouri's Pictures, but with Musashi I was saddened then to not have nearly as much to feed my young imagination. Learning about these two great ships at that age snowballed from learning about the war, to East Asia, and much about my own country as well.
To basics of engineering, the oceans, and their currents and mysteries. About Yamato too, and also Iowa, America and Japan's pre war idea's , and differences, to America's occupation. To why and how we thought differently before and during the conflict, and how we have changed up until today.
Kinda amazing how something so simple as day dreams over two ships can can spark so much in a child that carries with us even as we age ?
Then as especially now, I hold utmost respect to all sailors who fought at sea during this most destructive conflict, as this video shows, modern mechanized warfare is brutal and destructive, maybe somehow these images of it's sown devastation will dissuade today's powers from repeating these mistakes and reliving these tragedies, and how we all service men, statesmen, and citizen have a common vested interest in deeply questioning whether we should or shouldn't go to war...
Enjoy.
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNMmqagTt90"]Musashi (武蔵) Expedition - YouTube[/ame]