The Pacific

The Pacific is a ten-part television World War II series produced by HBO that I have been quite addicted to this last month! In 1943 a war started in Europe as we know but at the same time another war begun between America and Japan on the Pacific Ocean. You might have heard of this war if I mention about the catastrophe that happened at Pearl Harbor… The Japanese did an unexpected attack to America, concretely Pearl Harbor! They bombed the whole Harbor killing thousands of American people and destroying many war ships. That is how the war between America and Japan started… Like many wars, it was a horrible war where many young men of my age died in combat and also suffered many injuries; living conditions were horrible and many of them died of hunger, thirst and tropical diseases…
You just have to imagine it! Imagine the whole of our class forced to go to war and only the 10% of us come back out of the original 100%! Life back then was hard and cruel and luckily this has changed so we have to be grateful with what we have got and respect all of those that died back then!

It’s a shame that these things are still happening… We never learn from our mistakes it seems like!

I recommend this ten-part television series to everyone that is interested in wars and so on… I have to say, it’s very sad to see!