How was war like a "giant catapault shot that accelerated life beyond any possible prior imagining?"
I think that before the war began, most Americans including the whole American Army thought that they would go over to the Pacific, shoot some Japs and they would be done and the war would be over. I think that they took it that they were overly superior to the Japanese that they would have no chance at all at putting up a fight. Even when the platoon was sitting at night watching the battle off the coast between the ships they took it that they were winning when they couldnt tell who was who. Then in the morning when they found out that they had lost 2 battleships to the Japanese navy they were stunned that it was even possible that they lost a battle. I think as soon as the fighting starts the soldiers quickly realize that the japanese are stronger then they think and that they are very capable of winning the war. I think that nothing they couldve done before the war could have prepared them for the war like actually being in it because nothing can prepare them for the emotional and physical toll that they go through everyday. The war really showed these soldiers what was going on in the Pacific which really differed from what they recently thought when they were back in the states.
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