"We have to remember that in the future we will want to keep before our children what this war was really like. It is so easy to forget; and then, for the younger generation, the hardships, the horror of war and the sorrow fade somewhat from their consciousness."

Author Jerome Hagen used this quote from Eleanor Roosevelt in the preface to his book War in the Pacific Volume I. This sentiment is at the core of the Arizona Memorial Museum Association's and the National Park Service's missions to help keep new generations from forgetting what WWII was really like.

Despite the tide of video game virtual reenactments and film fictionalization, Gen. Hagen's series War in the Pacific, Mr. Seiden's history of Pearl Harbor, From Fishponds to Warships and Mr. Wisniewski's Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial all seek to bring to life the sweep of actual historical events playing out through the conflicting motivations of real people. Fact is often stranger, more compelling, and ultimately more enlightening than fiction.

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