What re-enactment is taking place at the Scott Air Force Base air show today?

It has been four years since the Pearl Harbor attack re-enactment group wowed crowds at the Scott Air Force Base Airpower Over the Midwest Air Show. The pilots of Tora Tora Tora will perform an aerial and pyrotechnic act at 11:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.

The act will feature eight aircraft that were used in the 1969 film "Tora Tora Tora." The 15-minute act is the oldest air show act in the U.S. It features three parts: The planes, the bombs and pyrotechnics and the narrator who tells the story of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. The aircraft are T-6 Texans, an American-built trainer aircraft modified to look like the three types of Japanese planes used in the attack on Pearl Harbor: The Zero fighter, the Kate Torpedo bomber and the Val dive bomber.

They are owned by the Commemorative Air Force. The narrator, Ken Crites, has been telling the Tora Tora Tora story for the act for more than 20 years. "He's very good at what he does and he is very emotional about ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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