In the past week I've read from page 96 to page 193. This book talks about some of the darker things that happened during World War II. It makes any enemy seem terrible and that they try to torture us and when we do the same thing back to someone else it says that it is our right to do it and that the enemy deserves it. An example of it is "When U.S. prisoners were killed, it was 'murder in flagrant disregard of the Geneva Conventions.' But when Americans murder Others, 'they had it coming to them.'" This shows that Americans think they are above what the rules state. Also they don't like people doing the same thing they do to other people. When it happens to them they think that is murder while when we do it to other people we say that they have it coming. Some of the things that we did the the Japanese that got shot down and were in the water was that we shot them. While they were parachuting down aircraft or people on the ground would shot them. While some people were in life boats a submarine came up and shot the survivors that were in the water. A different time they had airplanes come and strafe the people in the water. Strafing is when an airplane comes in and shoots what is on the ground. They made a sport out of shooting the people in the water. The cameras that they have on the airplane noses recorded what they did, they then put it into a movie and went and showed it to people. They enjoyed it while eating popcorn thinking that it was something that they could enjoy, they had a narrator talking about what they were doing and that the pilots were doing a good job. The Americans had a poster with a girl writing a note to her boyfriend and a skull in it. The poster was talking about how she was writing a thank you note to her boyfriend for the skull that he sent her. It was a skull from a captured japanese fighter. Another thing that the americans did to a captured person was taking a large knife and tried to cut out his teeth. He has his knife on his teeth and slipped and stabbed him in the back of the mouth. The American then cut him from the cheeks to the ears on both sides. He then went back to trying to cut out his teeth while standing on his neck. Another American came up and shot the person that was getting tortured and the other one kept going. The didn’t show this as torture to the american people they showed this as something that should be praised since they are getting rid of the enemy. This book is a book that is hard to read. It is hard to read since it doesn’t capture people’s attention. Since it is hard to read this book then it is hard for me to reach my reading goal. This book is just telling facts which I normally like reading if the author is able to present it in an interesting way. James Bradley (author of Flyboys) doesn’t write this book in a way that would capture someone's attention and keep it so they would want to keep reading it and finish it as quickly as they can.
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