Sometime this weekend i was watching a show on the History Channel called Dog Fights. The show is not about dogs fighting rather the term used to describe air plane battles. This episode of the show was about kamakazi pilots in world war two. Kamakazi pilots were pilots whos missions were suicide plane bombings. The pilots would fly their planes into aircraft carriers destroying the ship and potentailly killing many. While watching the show i was wondering what in the world would compell people to do this. There were people on the show being interveiwed who were kamakazi escorts. Their job was to fly with the kamakazis and protect them from being shot down befor hitting their target. The escorts described the job of a kamakazi was the most honerable job in the war. I thought this related to the movie we watched in class. In the movie the 54th regiment was going into battle and they knew the majority of the men were going to die. Even though they knew they were going to die they marched to battle because they believed they were dying honerably for something they believed in and fought for. Im not sure i could ever be as brave as these men in either situation but what pushes someone to feel so strongly about something they are willing to die for it?
1 comment:
Great honesty, Mikey.
I think this posting could be improved a bit if you offered your own theory first. What do you believe are the sources of this kind os self-sacrifice? I liked how you compared the actions of the Japanese kamikaze to the Union soldiers. I wonder what they both have in common?
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