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**8 December 1941** //Jesus Christ! News just got in through my boys that the Japs had launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Them Japs, before I get started with them, let me say a few things beforehand. I haven’t been able to write in my journal for quite some time because of many reasons. One of them has been the growing tensions we’ve been suffering from as the Japs began to grow restless after invading China. Just because they had finished off an already ill dog like China, these Japs have become too arrogant for their own good. By bombing Pearl Harbor, they had just plucked the hair of, as much as I hate to admit it, a slumbering Yankee lion, and, boy, should they better be ready to be hauled by their asses back to that hole from which they came from. Honest to God, these Japs are just like filthy rats. They invade China after, what, just signing a non aggression pact with the Chinese. What do they do next? They rape an entire city, committing atrocities against innocent civilians. Chinese POWs? Massacred, systematically killed, tortured–whatever you name it, the Japs did it. And you call them a civilized people? They’re just like the Nazis, but even worse. Whatever happened to their treatment of POWs? Ever heard of the Geneva Conference? What kind of sick, unreasonable bastards are they? Are all their freaking samurai code of honor all bullcrap? It sure seems like it because those Japs have just proven themselves to be overconfident rodents who’ll be cornered eventually and butchered to pieces.//

//Christ! Command just told us that the Japs had begun an invasion on Malaya. That’s just an island away from Singapore! Now the war doesn’t seem as distant as it used to be. Crap, they say I might see combat as quick as within a single month! A single month! I’m really starting to regret coming out here and all. But, I can’t go back. I’d come out to see the world for myself: No way did I want to be stuck on that island called Great Britain and take part in the home front where all you do is taking care of your own backyard garden. No, I came out here, to Singapore, for a reason, and I am not going to shame my brothers back home. Word says that Tôjô got impatient of waiting for the Nazis to dominate Europe, and so they began their attack on us. We’re not so much as ready yet. That god forsaken war in Europe’s not allowing Command down here to receive the necessary vehicles and equipment. Just to show you how desolate our armament is, even at times of imminent war, we’ve got no tank divisions whatsoever. I just pray to God that we don’t hear the rumbling of those Jap tanks before we get any sort of heavy duty equipment. Christ. I’m going off to a war. God bless me.//