klavinia
I am writing my father's story. He was at Pearl after the bombing. He only recently gave me notebooks full of over 400 pages of letters he wrote during the war and a scrapbook full of all sorts of things. I never knew he had these. He kept them hidden. It seems he was broke the Katakana Code on submarines. I have done everything I can think of to get information on this. I've google'd using everything from katakana to intelligence. I encouraged my dad to send for his records, which he did. THey were terribly disappointing. It seems that most of the information has either not been declassified yet or the government is going to make it near impossible to get. I have read numerous oral histories online at the Oral History Project Site. I've contacted History professors. So here's my question; How can I put together information when it appears nothing has been written on this subject?
Incidentally, it's not that I don't believe my dad. He has a very sharp mind, always has. He can still break that code to this day. ANd he remembers each and every detail about his involvement in all of this. Keeping all of this a secret for over sixty years has taken it's toll on him. Revealing it has precipitated nightmares and even post-traumatic stress (though he refuses to see anyone). I believe that writing his story will be healing but I also believe that if I could find someone who knows about this, it would validate his experience and that is just as important as writing a book.
Thank you in advance, Lavinia
Incidentally, it's not that I don't believe my dad. He has a very sharp mind, always has. He can still break that code to this day. ANd he remembers each and every detail about his involvement in all of this. Keeping all of this a secret for over sixty years has taken it's toll on him. Revealing it has precipitated nightmares and even post-traumatic stress (though he refuses to see anyone). I believe that writing his story will be healing but I also believe that if I could find someone who knows about this, it would validate his experience and that is just as important as writing a book.
Thank you in advance, Lavinia