The Purple Heart of wartime propaganda that had a stereotypical portrayal of the Japanese (usually by actors of non-Japanese origin) as sadistic tyrants trying to wrest the secret of their aircraft carrier's location during torture sessions. The 16 air crews did arrive over Japan from the USS Hornet (CV-8). President Franklin D. Roosevelt said the crews came from Shangri-La, a fictional place described in the 1933 novel "Lost Horizon" by British author James Hilton. The USS Shangri-La (CV-38) was commissioned in 1944. "The Purple Heart" was based on the real-life story of eight Doolittle Raiders who were captured from two different crews: Lieutenants
Lost in Paradise (song) he requested the band record the song for "Evanescence". Lee credits Raskulinecz for the idea of the full band joining in mid-way through the song. Lee went to Toronto's Liberty Studios on August 22, 2011, to preview five mastered songs from "Evanescence" to a selected crowd of thirty people, including "Lost in Paradise". During an interview with Fuse in May 2012, the band revealed that it would be released as the album's third overall single. Wind-Up Records released the digital single on May 25, 2012. "Lost in Paradise" is a symphonic rock, piano and power ballad, inspired by Lee's love