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Yes, we went to Pearl on the way back from France a few years ago, came through the USA to Hawaii. Hadn't been to Pearl before, although have been to Hawaii before, but only briefly. It is a sad place at the memorial, and an horrific moment in history. But it is sad because it was the catalyst that brought the USA into WWII and lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of young American men and women.

People died in the millions during WWI and WWII throughout Europe, it was horrific there, all the men and women that died in those theaters of war, so many memorials for hundreds of thousands. Not to mention the Pacific Theater the tens of thousands of young Americans and Australians who fought defending the USA and Australia and our allies.

When you travel through the Somme, Normandy, Germany, along the Western Front in France through Belgium, and in the UK there are memorials everywhere, cemeteries everywhere to the war dead, so sad, it continually shocks you, it looks all so calm now, beautiful countryside, then you see the pictures the photographs in the local museum or memorials, and it seems so senseless.