6th Blog Post: Peter Ota and Betty Bayse

I would just like to start this blog episode by commenting on the title of the section.  It is called, "The Good War."  I feel like this is very ironical in the sense that this was one of the worst wars of all time and yet people are calling it the good war because it ended up being a positive thing for the United States collectively.  Anyways, It is interesting to see the both sides of this.  Peter Ota explains how on the day of the bombing, his father was taken by the FBI due to the fact that he was Nisei and was brought to one of the internment camps. He explained how his father was put into prisoners clothing and was essentially treated like an inferior to the Americans. On the positive note, I thought it was incredibly interesting that Betty had made her decision to become a nurse as quickly as possible to help our troops.  It is interesting because, in this notion, it kind of does feel like it is the good war.  People seemed to come together and there was this feel of community within the people.  To go off on another tangent, this war reminds me a little bit about religion.  In all religions, people celebrate the holidays mostly by coming together and eating food.  For the record, what better way is there to celebrate a holiday by coming together as a family and eating dinner? Anyways, I'm not saying that war is necessarily a holiday, but at home, it seemed like it was a little bit like a get-together.  People were celebrating when the soldiers did something fantastic and they would party and celebrate and build weapons together, as one unit.