'Solution for peace?'

U.S.S. Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor

Louie Levy of Thousand Oaks was 15 years old on Dec. 7, 1941 and living in Brooklyn, N.Y. People came out of their homes after hearing radio reports about the Japanese attack in Pearl Harbor, Levy said.

They knew that America was going to war, he said.

Levy loved airplanes and later attended the Academy of Aeronautics at La Guardia Airport in New York City. In 1944, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Forces where he helped work on guided missiles, a technology that was then in its infancy.

German scientists like Wernher von Braun joined the U.S. program and advanced it.

Although Levy declines to call himself a pacifist, his prose and poetry often put an emphasis on peace.

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What follows is an untitled piece he wrote less than a year ago, inspired by a photograph that he shot several years ago, above, at the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor: 

                                O say;
                  can we not yet dare to read
      of the Tomb Stoned list of War Casualties?

      A curious vacationing boy is seen through
        the camera lens of a surviving veteran
  He worries for all curious boys. . . yet not born

  That of many innocents, of past horrific wars--
Of playful grown boys alike, being dog tagged and
    robot'd to 'Kill or Be Killed,' lacking hope
                    for ever lasting peace. . .

    Continuing Silhouetted Voices at
            grave sites ever curious

        "Why Must There be War?"

        Friends becoming Enemies
    None be victorious, as saddened
Earth mortally inters all, yet to weed th'
    evil seed of hate--all the while--

                  'Love' awaits,
                sprouting for the
            inherent flowering. . .
              'Solution for Peace'