This is a good opportunity for me to know our aviation history too.
Thanks.
A senior lady refers to an old glider in her recent blog.
Please let me introduce.
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When I was arranging my old family photos today, a photo of my brother in his young days came out.
My brother and I have a lot of years apart.
He was nineteen years old and a Medical University student then.
I know he was joining a glider club and hovering over the sky on board the glider of the left photograph.
He is still keeping the youth by riding a horse or something with which people are not so familiar...
The Pacific War started and, soon after the photograph was taken, he joined naval preparatory training course to lose a lot of his friends in Kamikaze missions afterwards.
When I said "In my recent sightseeing trip to Guam and Saipan, I saw Zero fighters being sunk in the sea." , he commented gently "Don't see such things. It's pitiful." and didn't even try to see my photos.
He was just about to join the Kamikaze if the war should have continued a little longer.
Missing his gone friends, he says he can't understand why we, younger generations, can see such relics for the purpose of sightseeing.
Today, I have glanced at the emotional difference between those who experienced the war and othres who do not know it.
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original site: Misa's blog
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