An+American+high+school+aged+boyBlock+D+Sem+II+2011

Name: **Clarence King** Age: **17** Gender: **Male** Occupation: **High school student; recently drafted into army** Appearance: **Tall, handsome** Location: **Hawaii** Personality/Quirks/Unique Personality Traits: **Patriotic, athletic** Family: **Father, mother, deceased brother** Education: **Up to high school, grades below average.** Languages you speak: **English** Your main concerns at this time and in life: **Growing tensions amongst Japan and U.S., recent death of brother in the sinking of the U.S. gunboat Panay by the Japanese.** Portrait (an image that you and we can live with):

__**Diary Entry #1**__ I serve the American army in honor of my brother, Sam. At this point, I can hope for nothing more. My brother has been M.I.A. for over a month now, and I can only assume it was the goddamn Japanese again. He was on a mission on the gunboat Panay, and has since not returned. As cruel as I may sound, I am hoping he drowned, and not captured by the Japanese. I can't imagine what they would do to him…it shouldn't be long before we hold his funeral.

The monsters responsible for my brother's death, the Japanese, have been dominating all of Asia for some time…and today they have invaded China. I am not surprised, because China was already a mess. My father, a long-time member of the air force, has told me Japan is growing too strong, and that the world should not stand idly by and observe. He said we should stop their expansion in Asia. The American government has found a weakness in the apparently invincible Japan -- their supply source. President Roosevelt has announced that the U.S. will place embargoes on certain supplies in hopes of Japan stopping expansion in hopes of removing these embargoes. I was hoping for a more aggressive approach, like destroying the entire country along with every inhabitant living in it.

I plan on becoming a sniper. I have extremely steady hands and the sharpest of concentrations.I am stealthy and fast, and the weight of the sniper is of no trouble. It is the safest too. I could have joined the navy or the air force, but they are so involved in the war and with those suicide planes and ships of the Japanese, I don't see how I wouldn't be killed. I enrolled in the army prepared to die, but let me have the satisfaction of sniping a Japanese's head before I die.

Sam, I will destroy the Japanese even if it is the last thing I do. With the help of my father, they will fall victim to the powers of the United States. I feel bad for my mother...my mother is all alone, her husband flying through the skies, her older son dead, and now her younger son on a suicide mission. Please, forgive me.

__**Diary Entry #2**__ The time has finally come. It is time for me to fight the Japanese, the savages who killed my brother. Not far away from my hometown, a naval harbor, Pearl Harbor, was attacked by the Japanese. Why they did this, I don't know. It was uncalled for, and the entire nation, including myself, is outraged. My father has recently been stationed in Pearl Harbor... and I am extremely lucky that he isn't dead. He tells me that he shot down planes at Pearl Harbor! I'm so proud of him and hope to become just half the man he is in the future.

I guess Roosevelt's plan of placing embargoes backfired. But I wonder how long Japan can keep this going. It won't be long before the entire world notices that it is an irrational country. Near the rubble that was Pearl Harbor, I saw so many people devastated, so many dead. In the midst of it all, I saw a lady in particular...Leona. She was beautiful, and even better, she was a nurse! She was treating all those injured. I talked to her and found out she had no home for it was bombed in the attack. She said she had a place to stay, so that was the end of that...but I hope we cross paths again. I hope for one day she can heal my wounds.

I must answer the call of duty. I have no time to flirt with pretty nurses. Where I will be I do not know. But I've honed my sharpshooting skills. This may be my last diary entry, because I am stepping into a world, one that many don't come back out of. I hope I can write another diary entry. Sam, this is for you.

__**Diary Entry #3**__

It was a difficult couple months, but everything is getting better now.

I cannot express through words the anger and frustration I felt just watching the Japanese grow in power. My country, its allies, and my family has been at war for many months and seen little success. Last December, they invaded Hong Kong, and a couple weeks ago they invaded Burma, the Dutch East Indies, New Guinea, and a couple others. They must be stopped.

For a while, I felt guilty for having done so little for my country yet received so much. My sniping abilities had been so far of no use, for the naval and air forces have been doing all the work. I am a coward for not having joined the navy or air force, thus I will never become half the man my father is. I just sat at my camp while other soldiers are putting their lives on the line fighting for the country. I'm sure if I was fighting the Axis powers I would have had some action, but with the geography of Asia being so spaced, it is understandable that ground forces are of little use. My other soldier friends in the U.K. at least have some defending to do.

I thought to myself...what should I do? Transfer to the air force? I mean, Japanese ground forces haven't even been defeated since 1939.

But that thought no longer exists. Things have changed. The tide has turned. Our country has seen some success against the Japanese, particularly in Coral Sea and Midway.

I have trained for several years, and now I am stationed in Guadalcanal. They qualified me for ground forces, but very different from the CQC (close quarters combat). I am indeed a second class sniper, available for assassinating presidents to backing up any of my comrades. Against guerillas like the Japanese, my sniping abilities might be rendered useless, but not completely. I get the satisfaction of blowing off the head of a Japanese, one by one. Every time I blow one of their heads off, I'm one Japanese closer to killing the guy who killed my brother, if I didn't kill him already. I know I sound like a psychopath, but I'm not. I just want justice served. Killing the Japanese should not be considered as murder, it should be considered as a great benefit to our world. We have the upper hand against them, and I can sense that victory will be achieved very soon.

P.S. I talked to my father and found out that he also met the nurse I was talking about. She is apparently a lot older than me...oops! She looked a lot younger than she seemed. After this is all over, I'll find a woman, one who is not twice my age. Until then, I must fight for my country and avenge my brother's death.

__**Diary Entry #4**__

The war is coming to a close. After successfully taking over Guadalcanal, I was deported to the Philippines, where the Japanese Imperial Army was starting to crumble. I landed on Leyte, and though the terrain was difficult to navigate, I backed up my fellow soldiers successfully. One by one, I picked up Japanese soldiers from multiple vantage points. We eventually moved up to Mindoro, near Manila. Here, I witnessed quite a sight. A group of peasants, lead by Dakila Torres, were running over the Japanese soldiers. I assisted them, and I even saved the leader's life. He was captured by one of the soldiers, and as he was being taken back to the Japanese outpost, I took a shot at the Japanese's head. I got his ear, and the peasant managed to run away in time.

It felt good to know that I was a hero, responsible for saving lives. Not only that, but I got to kill a Japanese at the same time -- two for the price of one?

After the successful repossession of Guadalcanal, I was moved to Iwo Jima. Here, we had the upper hand all the way. The air forces shot down all their planes and the ground forces shot down all their soldiers. As a last act of desperation, they started using their planes to fly into naval carriers and other planes. These Japanese truly do fight until the end...is it that their patriotism is so strong? Whatever the case, the Japanese government has done a great job of convincing their soldiers that fighting until their death is pretty much mandatory.

Japan is the only obstacle left to end this war. Even Berlin has surrendered, for Hitler is dead. To have Japan surrender will take something truly unexpected. Something so surprising that it may be considered inhumane. But I have lost some of the humanity within me. The Japanese have killed by brother, they have bombed my hometown and almost killed my father, and are responsible for causing my mother grief. If it is a bombing that is required, then that is what I support. If it is the support of the USSR we need, then that is what I support. A message must be sent to the Japanese -- that it is all over, and they have nowhere to go.

__**Sources**__

http://www.ww2pacific.com/ http://www.library.illinois.edu/news/ww2stories.html http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_1900_power.htm http://www.infoplease.com/year/1937.html http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005155