Chapter 11
After the solemn, powerful experience of boating to the Pearl Harbor Memorial, Katerina Rivera and Pari Malik drive onto Ford Island in Pearl Harbor and climb aboard the retired USS Missouri, now a museum ship in the national historic landmark, for a self-guided tour. World War II ended on the battleship, with the Empire of Japan’s formal and unconditional surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. They walk close to the giant turrets and directly under the battleship guns out onto the front of the main deck, facing toward the USS Arizona Memorial, anchored little more than 1,000 feet away, and Pari contemplates the overwhelming violence and chaos in what is now such a placid place. She finds it almost incomprehensible to imagine the planes and bombs and fires roaring in t
