They rowed hard, away from the battleships and the bombs. Water sprayed over them. The rowboat pitched one way and then the other. Then, before his eyes, the Arizona lifted up out of the water. That enormous battleship bounced up in the air like a rubber ball and split apart. Fire burst...
"What about what they did to my father?...The Japs killed him!"...I shouldn't have said "Jap," but [Davi] knew I didn't mean him. It was the country where his parents were born. If his parents hadn't come to Hawaii, Davi would have been born there too. I lay there looking up into the dark,...
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After his father's ship is sunk during the invasion of Pearl Harbor, Adam doesn't let his mother stop him from joining-up. Yet upon his arrival in Japan and witnessing one of the bloodiest battles, Adam realizes why his mother was being so protective.
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