“Children of Pearl”
Some folks are putting together a documentary about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor from a completely different perspective than you’ve ever seen. The producers of “Children of Pearl” have sent us a preview of their interviews with the remaining 150 people who were kids on December 7, 1941 at the base in Hawaii;
The preview is pretty good. I can only imagine what it’s like to wake up on Sunday morning to the news that you’re under attack and say good bye to your soldier- or sailor-father for the last time as he rushes to war in your front yard. It was instructive enough for me to just watch the video and hear the story told in the language of the day by the people who were there at the scene.
Of course this project is privately funded, so if you’ve got a coupla bucks to spare, throw it their way at their Kickstarter page.
Category: Historical
This aught to be a great project! And Pearl being my hometown, I will be donating when the next paycheck comes in. It’s interesting, and I want to see the next progressionof this, interviews with those of us that were high schoolers and below in the Washington area, Manhattan, and Shanksville. This is something that should be recorded for posterity.
There is actually a children’s fiction chapter book with this perspective, for those who are interested: A Boy At War by Harry Mazer. It is the first book in a trilogy aimed at 8-12 year olds. The other books in the series are A Boy No More and Heroes Don’t Run.