Folks, please remember that today is Pearl Harbor Day [the Sneak Attack on the U. S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor] plus 62 years.
Without those who were there, our country of today wouldn't exist. Our nudist opportunites probably wouldn't exist. WWII Veterans are passing away at the rate of approximately 1,500 per day. Those numbers include survivors of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Since there were only a few thousands there that day and who were in the attack, they are dying at a portionally faster rate than other WWII Vets.
If you know or meet one of these survivors, tell them 'Thank You'. They helped to create the society that we have today.
Just remember that it was approximately 7:58 A. M., local time, when the attack began on 7 December 1941, a Sunday! The Colors were being presented, raised, and the Bands were playing the Star Spangled Banner at that moment. That same 'National Anthem' guarantees us the priveledges to practice nudism.
They paid the price. More than 2,400 people died in that attack. Do not forget them.
KuzeN
P. S. I love to play the Star Spangled Banner. Long may she wave over the U. S. and our nudism.
Thank you for the reminder. We always need to be mindful of our vetrans, but especially on days like today.
Thank them and thank God for the freedoms we enjoy today.
God Bless
Kevin P
...there's a recent book called Flyboys by James Bradley. It's not as well written as I would like, but it does a magnificent job of explaining how the Japanese military perverted and debased the ancient, honorable Samurai tradition into a shameful exercise in mass brutality.
There's a degree of balance in the book that will be uncomfortable to some, as he shows how US forces responded to senseless acts of Japanese brutality with senseless acts of brutality of their own. My view is that he does an admirable job of showing the nature of war itself.
It also brings to light historical information that deserves to be remembered, and that is still relevant to discussions today. Prior to Pearl Harbor the Japanese slaughtered more people in China than Hitler did in Europe. In the process of killing every living thing in parts of China (men, women, children, and animals), the Japanese killed more people than were destroyed by the two atomic bombs together.
The book recounts the willingness of Chinese civilians to commit suicide rather than be captured (thousands did this at Saipan), and the role that the Japanese government played to bring the suicides about. In view of this historical reality, now largely forgotten, it is hard to argue that the war could have been won with the use of atomic bombs except by the deaths of millions of Japanese civilians.
