Goodbyes

Overall, the last chapter of the book really left me hanging! It didn't feel as juicy or emotionally impacted as the rest of the book did. You could feel the way the people who had been interviewed had this new perspective on the world after war and they seemed to be kind of over the situation.

I think one part that really stuck out to me was Aboard USS Tracy Bowden. I really like how selfless this person was and last commented "tell it to the whales." While reading the earlier parts of the book that had water scenes in them, I never thought to think of animals that may have went extinct from this war, especially not something as giant as whales. I began to wonder what could actually happen to the life cycle of things in the ocean without whales. Are they a necessity? I think this guy brought up really valid points in his small interview. People probably didn't even realize how they were destroying such wonderful creatures, because they were only worried about saving themselves. I think this small section was probably more important than people realized. The war created total chaos and everything seemed to vanish, even the whales. At the end, the person was saying that there wasn't even a substantial way to start recreating the animals. That would change the make up of the ocean for forever.  I wonder if this person was in any of the water wars and that's why they had this view of the water animals? Did they have any pets or people that they had lost in their lives that he could have talked about instead? I wonder what made him think that the whales, of all things, lost the war.