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For the best effect, please be sure to watch these videos and slide show in "FULL SCREEN" mode.
This is an automated video series and a slide show of the tsunami which devastated Japan on Friday 11 March 2011.
As a small boy, I lived in Japan at Ashiya Air Force Base, located near Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu, where I went through the Second Grade at the base school.
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| Daddy and me |
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| Our house in Ashiya |
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| Second Grade Class at Ashiya Air Force Base (Click on the picture and see if you can figure out which of these kids is ME!) |
Many years later, while serving in the Republic of Viet Nam with the United States Army, I went to Japan for my annual Rest and Recuperation leave (i.e., "R&R"), where I visited EXPO '70 in Osaka, rode the "Bullet Train", and visited Kamakura, Enoshima, Tokyo, and Yokohama.
I highly recommend watching the classic Hollywood motion picture productions of "FLIGHT FROM ASHIYA" and "SAYONARA", as they are two of my favorites.
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2 comments:
Hi,
Do you have the names of your classmates? I wonder if one is my brother-in-law. He was born in 1950, so depending on when this was taken, he might have been in your class.
Kerrin:
I was born in 1946, and I'm guessing I was in the Second Grade at Ashiya Air Force Base on the island of Kyushu in Japan around 1953, so I doubt your brother-in-law would have been old enough to be one of my classmates, even if I could remember anyone's name from that long ago, which I can't.
Maybe he was in Nursery School with my youngest sister, or maybe in Kindergarten with my other sister?
But, how would they remember?
There are, and were, a lot of American military installations, manned by hundreds of thousands of personnel, throughout all of the Japanese islands.
Thank you for your comment.
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