—We thought this comment from Mr. Iwasaki deserved special attention here. Yutaka’s research and translation spawned the search, and we all owe him a debt of graditute for helping us ‘understand our way’. — Newman
Hello Exciting video!
I can see the staffs and the ship Aquila. The staffs must be alike the Navy men of Japanese and American who fought in the north sea.
I remembered my days at Kure shipyard(1981-1988). I was a young technical staff and using Hewlett-Packard Analyzer on Australian ore carrier(BHP:Broken Hills Prosperity) or Kuwaiti oil tanker(KOTC;Kuwait Oil Transport Company), did experiment while ship’s builders trial. Alike a rat on Noah’s Ark, was running from bow to stern.
Also I can feel the sea-sick feeling from the video.I like Art Wright. He remind me my old shipyard senior, “HANCHO”. He(the senior) was kind and tough expert.
I also remember the time(2 years ago?) when I draw a Kiska map on the behind of photo copy by pencil using set square and protractor. At that time (still now) I was in imaginary(fantasy) world on/in the book. But today my drawing becomes real, substantial enterprise. The Abeles have the will and the genius perhaps inherit from the father and mother. I imagine(I know the ship launch ceremony) the moment when Mrs. Abele declared to the Escort Destroyer “I name you Mannert Lincoln Abele”. Or the similar mother’s feeling of DD-537 launching, ” — The Sullivans.”
When I visited NIDS and found Aiura’s report, saw the original map that is origin of my pencil drawing, I teared in the library. I feel the papers come from Kiska is waiting me for more than sixty years.
Waiting things are now calling us.
Old Chinese proverb by Confucius ‘When you understand your way in the morning, you never regret if you die in the same evening.’ I am now quite satisfied. Thank you all.Go go! Art.
Regards
Yutaka Iwasaki
Aug 11, 2006