Pain And Purpose In The Pacific
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Author |
: Richard Carl Bright |
Publisher |
: Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 527 |
Release |
: 2014-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781490721538 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1490721533 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pain and Purpose in the Pacific by : Richard Carl Bright
What follows here, just a brief insight into Pain and Purpose in the Pacific. This book did not begin with the idea of a chronology of the battles of the Pacific War, although an overview is included. But instead it was intended to be a brief account of the battles on Saipan, Tinian, and Okinawa as I retrace the travels of one Marine from the farmland of Minnesota to Japan and back. Carl J. Johnson spent 30 months in the Pacific. Four of those months were in bitter combat on the islands of Saipan, Tinian, and Okinawa. He is my uncle. I have been blessed to travel, & to spend time at many of the places he traveled during World War II. My travels didnt stop there. As a Continental Airlines pilot based in Guam, now retired and having lived on Saipan, I have had the opportunity over a seven year period to visit other islands that were the scene of horrific battles of World War II. In addition to Saipan, Tinian, and Okinawa, I will mention a few of them. Included are Guam where I was based during the closing years of my airline career; also Belau, which is Palau, and includes Peleliu. Included too in this book are Iwo Jima, Corregidor and the Philippines. In my travels beyond Hawaii and Pearl Harbor, which was my introduction into the Pacific, were Yap, and Truk, which is Chuuk, and Pohnpei in the Carolines. And Ive spent time in Japan. During my time in the Pacific, I have been presented with the opportunity to speak with several of the veterans of the Pacific War. Doing so has in some cases allowed me in some small way to understand a sense of the hell they had to suffer through. Included in this report are a few of their stories, as well as stories from some of the people of the islands who in one way or another were involved in the conflict. It is with a depth of gratitude that I acknowledge the Military Historical Tours of Alexandria, Virginia for allowing me to be a part of their tours to the islands of Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, as well as Guam, Tinian and Saipan. I appreciate this organization, dedicated to preserving the memories of the war, and to the honoring of the military personnel who were there at the time. While living on either Guam or Saipan I also was able to visit on my own most of the islands mentioned on this page. But it was the Military Historical Tours, and its President USMC Colonel Warren Wiedhahn ([email protected]) that made it possible for me to visit Iwo Jima. They allowed me to join them once a year for 4 consecutive years. I have since returned a 5th time in March of 2010. It was through this great organization that over a 7 year period (while living on both Guam and Saipan in the Marianas Islands), I was able to meet most of the WWII veterans mentioned here; and these aging veterans of the War in the Pacific whom I have met, have touched my heart. In addition to my uncle, this book is for them too.
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: 642 |
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: 1891 |
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: STANFORD:36105030984269 |
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: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pacific Coast Teacher by :
Author |
: Jason Throop |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 350 |
Release |
: 2010-02-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520945937 |
ISBN-13 |
: 052094593X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Suffering and Sentiment by : Jason Throop
Suffering and Sentiment examines the cultural and personal experiences of chronic and acute pain sufferers in a richly described account of everyday beliefs, values, and practices on the island of Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia. C. Jason Throop provides a vivid sense of Yapese life as he explores the local systems of knowledge, morality, and practice that pertain to experiencing and expressing pain. In so doing, Throop investigates the ways in which sensory experiences like pain can be given meaningful coherence in the context of an individual’s culturally constituted existence. In addition to examining the extent to which local understandings of pain’s characteristics are personalized by individual sufferers, the book sheds important new light on how pain is implicated in the fashioning of particular Yapese understandings of ethical subjectivity and right action.
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: 1020 |
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: 1919 |
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: HARVARD:32044103149019 |
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: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pacific Reporter by :
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: John G. Jury |
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Total Pages |
: 428 |
Release |
: 1891 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B3099579 |
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: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pacific Coast Teacher by : John G. Jury
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Total Pages |
: 32 |
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: 1898 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015079989383 |
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: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pacific Record of Medicine and Pharmacy by :
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: Michelle McClain-Walters |
Publisher |
: Charisma Media |
Total Pages |
: 146 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781621365877 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1621365875 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Esther Anointing by : Michelle McClain-Walters
The Esther Anointing gives you the keys to Esther's success, including the qualities that make women great, the power of influence, and the key to finding God's favor for your assignment.
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: 414 |
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: 1876 |
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: SRLF:C0000186288 |
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: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pacific Rural Press and California Farmer by :
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Total Pages |
: 1386 |
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: 1941 |
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: STANFORD:36105060858318 |
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: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pacific Digest by :
Author |
: Susanna Moore |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2015-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374298777 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374298777 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Paradise of the Pacific by : Susanna Moore
The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals -- from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below to the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes. Early Polynesian adventurers sailed across the Pacific in double canoes. Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines and British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage were soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay -- all wanderers washed ashore. This is true of many cultures, but in Hawaii, no one seems to have left. And in Hawaii, a set of myths accompanied each of these migrants -- legends that shape our understanding of this mysterious place. Susanna Moore pieces together the story of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii -- its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers -- a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values.