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(More customer reviews)From the moment I opened the first pages, I was immediately drawn into the story. The introduction, alone, brought me to tears. I come from a strong military family having fought in WWI, WWII, and my Father fought (and come home)in Vietnam. Of course there are other unspoken conflicts that many other family members were a part of (the Korean War, Bosnia, Kosovo, Operation Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom), but this book brought home the reality of what our service members actually experienced during the sneak attack by the Japanese. This includes, but not limited to Pearl Harbor, Wheeler Airforce Base, Hickam Airforce Base, Schofield Barracks Army Base, Ft. Kamehamaha, and other locations often unheard of. This book is riveting, factually accurate, and stunningly heartwarming. The author did an extensive amount of research to locate many of the Pearl Harbor survivors and family of the deceased. He gained access to inside stories never told before. Most military personnel hesitate to speak of the autrocities of war, however Dick Spangler became a trusted friend to these service members, now in their eighties and nineties. Pearl Harbor will always "live in infamy", never forgotten, but healed over time due to history being told to the masses. I agree with Dick Spangler about our young generation not being told the important parts of our history. More books should be included in the history curriculums at our schools nationwide, to include this one in particular, so these stories can be learned. Again, I would highly recommend this book to any history-buff, scholar, or entity wanting to teach the history of our military service members. They are the fighters/defenders of our freedoms, sometimes at the cost of their lives. But, they endure it voluntarily as we reep the rewards.
My copy is going on my coffee table for full viewing. It's that good.
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West Point to Pearl HarborThis is an extraordinary story of the Spangler family and the survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack, who experienced first-hand that fateful day of December 7, 1941. West Point to Pearl Harbor is inspired by two factors of great importance to the author: the fear that Pearl Harbor's hard-learned lessons of 1941 will vanish, and his Father's death in 1998. Dick Spangler reveals the private journals of his Father's life as a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy in the late 1920's and 30's. Dick Spangler shares the intimacy of love letters written between his parents, incredible eyewitness accounts of surviving soldiers and sailors, and his own childhood memory of this most unforgettable moment in history. The stories are so vividly told by survivors that the reader can experience the true feelings of these courageous heroes who were forced to participate in the horrifying event. There is no truer way to learn history. This book commemorates in an enduring manner those who were there at the start of World War II on American soil. Readers unfamiliar with the motto: REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR will no longer forget.
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