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I will use the argument that was used in the 1950’s regarding registration of arms and why Americans at the time pointed at Europe as naive. Europeans had passed gun laws requiring the registration of guns by citizens and they did. When the Germans went into France, Belgium, etc., etc., etc. the first thing that they did was go directly to the town halls, grab the registry of small arms and proceed door to door collecting the goodies. Many a soldier: friend’s dad, uncle, etc, would tell that story. It is actually part of the mythos of the time.The object lesson drawn from that was to never be as dumb as a European and their politicians.Some would take the part of a Eurpoean. The following answer was quite effective… Simply, the name of the idiot Chamberlain was mentioned and has catch-phrase, “Peace in our time”, appeasing Hitler. Heads of men at this point would nod and older men would look at each other and say, “What were they thinking? Boys would http://listen.As a child I watched movies re. reenactments of actual events of WWII as towns were rounded up and decimated or wiped out without resistance. The refrain was, “They gave up their guns.”People always asked, “Why didn’t Europeans go to the door with their guns blazing and kill as many as they could? It was even put in print from time to time.If German soldiers knew every door had death behind it, would they still storm the house? People felt the answer was, “No.”They asked, “Why did they go as sheep into the great night?” The question was asked again and again and again. It was nationwide, when I was a boy,Hence the problem of the Europeans as it plays out today. Totally predictable, as is the Americans resistance to give up their guns under the leash of the Buckingham Palace Regent-Presidents of the United States. Fools learn nothing from history… So here we get ready to go again. THINK. Do not welcome the crazy in…Besides after the war, the US paid to defend Europe, Japan and others which gave them free-loading status as to the bulk of their costs, while we rebuilt their industries even better than ours and taught them best practices as we do now as slaves to the Crown and others under H1B programs. Remember, the Europeans had nothing when it was over.Your leaders, like ours today were and are pathetic, your generals, French, Vichy French, Italian, the rest, forget it, pathetic. Only the Germans had anything and the banks played both sides for fun and profit, just like now, war equals money. Personal guns is why the Japs did not invade, Patton was right……And No, I do not own a gun.. I do believe every citizen should have the right to own one, and carry, concealed or open carry; except anyone belonging to secret societies. I probably should.I am old enough to remember, even as a child of the time. I grew up watching death by war. I get it. Keep your guns. When they are gone, the cat comes out to play. Maus. Amazon.com: book maus Here Mausy, Mausy, Mausy…Dub de Dumb Dumb. No European has earned the right to say anything to an American. When did you ever offer us mercy. Only the Dutch ever repaid your war notes to the US, and theft has been shall we say disgusting. That includes the Japanese too. I remember too much. Run over a chicken. pay for the eggs it would have laid for life. I really know.who is who. I remember. Note the US gun laws under Bush Sr. were taken word for word in many instaances from the French gun laws, just prior to WWII, but only a European with a big mouth would not know that. I once had the misfortune to examine the two with translation to some extent side by side. So blame a European, it is all here fault for these gun laws and you can go look it up, you can manage that can’t you. Yes I am annoyed. We get slighted for the other side of the pond and they start this and so many other problems and blame everyone else except themselves. Richard Dunn

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Questions like this betray the lack of understanding that most civilians have concerning the military. Military men and women do not get to choose their wars the politicians do that for them, generally without the consent of the military personnel who actually fight the wars.Isoroku Yamamoto with United States Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur.“ I'm against war with the United States. But I am an officer of the Imperial Navy and a subject of His Majesty the Emperor.”Education: Harvard University (1919 - 1921) · Imperial Japanese Naval AcademyPrince Fumimaro KonoeDespite Konoe's attempts to resolve tensions with the United States, the rigid timetable imposed on negotiations by the military and his government's inflexibility regarding potential resolution terms set Japan on the path to war. After failing to reach a peace agreement, Konoe resigned as Prime Minister on 18 October 1941 prior to the outbreak of hostilities. On 29 November 1941, at a luncheon with the emperor with all living former prime ministers in attendance, Konoe voiced his objection to war. Upon hearing of the attack on Pearl Harbor Konoe said "What on earth? I really feel a miserable defeat coming, this will only last 2 or 3 months." Referring to Japan's military success. Konoe played a role in the fall of the Tōjō government in 1944. In February 1945, during the first private audience he had been allowed in three years, he advised the Emperor to begin negotiations to end World War II. According to Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita, Hirohito, still looking for a tennozan (a great victory), firmly rejected Konoe's recommendation.Following the end of the war, he committed suicide on 16 December 1945.General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (栗林 忠道, Kuribayashi Tadamichi, 7 July 1891 – c. 26 March 1945) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, part-time writer, haiku poet, diplomat, and commanding officer of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff. He is best known for having been the overall commander of the Japanese garrison during the Battle of Iwo Jima.Even before the battle, General Kuribayashi insisted upon sharing the hardships of his men. He also refused to permit banzai charges, which he regarded as an unnecessary waste of his men's lives. The United States Marine Corps had expected to capture Iwo Jima in five days, but Kuribayashi and his men held out for 36 days. It is believed that Kuribayashi was killed in action in the final assault, but his body was never identified by the United States military.Kuribayashi was designated as deputy military attaché to Washington, D.C. in 1928. For two years, Kuribayashi traveled across the United States, conducting extensive military and industrial research. For a short time, he studied at Harvard University.Kuribayashi later recalled,"I was in the United States for three years when I was a captain. I was taught how to drive by some American officers, and I bought a car. I went around the States, and I knew the close connections between the military and industry. I saw the plant area of Detroit, too. By one button push, all the industries will be mobilized for military business."[3]According to his son, Taro Kuribayashi,"From 1928 to 1930, my father stayed in the United States as an exchange officer. In those days, he often gave me, a grammar school boy, printed letters. He always composed easy letters in order to let me read them without any help from others. He used to enclose some sketches with the letters. I have made a book of these picture letters. In the letters are so many scenes – while visiting Boston, he was lying sprawled on the gardens of Harvard University watching a clock tower, in another he is taking a walk in Buffalo, in another, playing with some American children and being invited to the house of Medical Doctor Furukohchi, etc. Throughout his letters, it is clear that my father used to drive in many directions in the United States, studied very hard late at night, and tried to be a gentleman. Also, he used to have many friends in foreign countries."[4]After returning to Tokyo, Kuribayashi was promoted to the rank of major and appointed as the first Japanese military attaché to Canada. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1933.[5]During his services in the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff in Tokyo from 1933–1937, he wrote lyrics for several martial songs. In 1940 Kuribayashi was promoted to major general.During the lead up to the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Kuribayashi is known to have repeatedly told his family, "America is the last country in the world Japan should fight."[6]Mitsuo Fuchida (淵田 美津雄, Fuchida Mitsuo, 3 December 1902 – 30 May 1976) was a Japanese captainin the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service and a bomber aviator in the Japanese navy before and during World War II. He is perhaps best known for leading the first wave of air attacks on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Working under the overall fleet commander, Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo, Fuchida was responsible for the coordination of the entire aerial attack.After the war ended, Fuchida became a Christian evangelist and traveled through the United States and Europe to tell his story. He settled permanently in the United States (although he never became a U.S. citizen).After the war, Fuchida was called on to testify at the trials of some of the Japanese military for Japanese war crimes. This infuriated him as he believed this was little more than "victors' justice". In the spring of 1947, convinced that the U.S. had treated the Japanese the same way and determined to bring that evidence to the next trial, Fuchida went to Uraga Harbor near Yokosuka to meet a group of returning Japanese prisoners of war. He was surprised to find his former flight engineer, Kazuo Kanegasaki, whom all had believed had died in the Battle of Midway. When questioned, Kanegasaki told Fuchida that they were not tortured or abused, much to Fuchida's surprise, and then went on to tell him of a young lady, Peggy Covell, who served them with the deepest love and respect, but whose parents, missionaries, had been killed by Japanese soldiers on the island of Panay in the Philippines.For Fuchida, this was inexplicable, as in the Bushido code revenge was not only permitted, it was "a responsibility" for an offended party to carry out revenge to restore honor. The murderer of one's parents would be a sworn enemy for life. He became almost obsessed trying to understand why anyone would treat their enemies with love and forgiveness.In the fall of 1948, Fuchida was passing by the bronze statue of Hachikō at the Shibuya Station when he was handed a pamphlet about the life of Jacob DeShazer, a member of the Doolittle Raid who was captured by the Japanese after his B-25 bomber ran out of fuel over occupied China. In the pamphlet, "I Was a Prisoner of Japan"DeShazer, a former U.S. Army Air Forces staff sergeant and bombardier, told his story of imprisonment, torture and his account of an "awakening to God."This experience increased Fuchida's curiosity of the Christian faith. In September 1949, after reading the Bible for himself, he became a Christian. In May 1950, Fuchida and DeShazer met for the first time.Fuchida created the Captain Fuchida Evangelistical Association based in Seattle, Washington and spoke full-time of his conversion to the Christian faith in presentations titled "From Pearl Harbor To Calvary".In 1951, Fuchida, along with a colleague, published an account of the Battle of Midway from the Japanese side. In 1952, he toured the United States as a member of the Worldwide Christian Missionary Army of Sky Pilots. Fuchida remained dedicated to a similar initiative as the group for the remainder of his life.Hachikō (ハチ公, November 10, 1923 – March 8, 1935) was a Japanese Akita dog remembered for his remarkable loyalty to his owner, Hidesaburō Ueno, for whom he continued to wait for over nine years following Ueno's death.[2]Hachikō was born on November 10, 1923, at a farm near the city of Ōdate, Akita Prefecture.In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University, brought him to live in Shibuya, Tokyo, as his pet. Hachikō would meet Ueno at Shibuya Station every day after his commute home. This continued until May 21, 1925, when Ueno died of a cerebral hemorrhage while at work. From then until his death on March 8, 1935, Hachikō would return to Shibuya Station every day to await Ueno's return.During his lifetime, the dog was held up in Japanese culture as an example of loyalty and fidelity. Well after his death, he continues to be remembered in worldwide popular culture, with statues, movies, books, and appearances in various media.