[fugazi]

Just imagine if someone created a "Pearl Harbor Experience" virtual reality video where you witnessed a recreation of what a sailor experienced: dodging bullets, shrapnel, hurdling mutilated bodies, running through fire and broken steam pipes, seeing guys get sealed off behind hatches, swimming through a portal as your ship sinks, being sucked under and getting spit back out by an air bubble to the surface which is coated in burning oil while enemy planes target the zombie-like burned survivors... getting to a liferaft just as enemy fire sinks it, dragging an exhausted comrade through the carnage and floating bodies to shore where you are in just about as much danger... You'd probably need years of counseling.

[NYAmerican]

“Just imagine if someone created a “Pearl Harbor Experience” virtual reality video where you witnessed a recreation of what a sailor experienced”

You kidding? Today, if a VR video was “produced”, it would focus on the segregated U.S. Military, on the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and any other “American Evil” every American youngster has been brainwashed into believing since 1970.

[llevrok]

You'd probably need years of counseling.

I grew up in the 1950's. Most of my peer's dads were WW2 and/or Korean war vets.

It never dawned on my until recently that a fair share of them probably had some form of PTSD.

Maybe that's why so many - including my dad who was a green Navy doc in WW2 and 4 years later at Chosin Korea - never talked about their service?

[Portcall24]

The movie “Midway” has some great scenes of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Since they used CGI they were really good.

[princeofdarkness]

I read about the three Barber brothers perishing on the Oklahoma. Shouldn’t the War Dept had taken the hint about preventing brothers serving on the same ship or same infantry division? Especially what happened to the Sullivans later on the USS Juneau.

[Captain Walker]

Anyone here who has been to the USS Arizona Memorial can attest to the large number of brothers who died on that ship. (There were about 80 brothers, more than 60 of whom were killed.)

I just double-checked: Of 37 sets of brothers, 23 sets were lost. (There were 79 original brothers, of whom 63 were killed.)