“A picture is worth a thousand words,” I’m sure you have heard this phrase many times before. While words have a certain impact on one reading them, nothing other than seeing something with one’s own eyes compares to a picture. Susan Sontag’s essay “Regarding the Pain of others” goes over how images impact our understanding of events that take place throughout history. One great example she talks about is the images of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So I choose an image of a similar background, the Bombings of Pearl Harbor. I choose an image that while looking at made me feel something. I picked an image of enlisted men of the Naval Air Station at Kaneohe, Hawaii, placing leis on the graves of their comrades killed in the attack.
