During my first deployment we flew the squadron jets from North Carolina to Iwakuni, Japan. On the second day we stopped in Hawaii and I had a chance to visit the Arizona Memorial. From there we flew to Wake Island and I walked the beaches and crawled through several of the bunkers and gun positions. While we were in Iwakuni, we took the train to Hiroshima to visit the Peace Park and museum there. Seeing all those places in that order helped frame it for me as I began to study the history of WWII. Years later I visited Yasakuni Shrine and museum in Tokyo, the memorial and museum for Japan's war dead. There I read the story of the war from the Japanese perspective.
I hope both sides never forget!