Comments on: Let’s remember Pearl Harbor

By: Gringo

Gringo — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:16:14 +0000

After my mother died, we found out from our aunt that my mother had a hometown friend/boyfriend who was one of the sailors killed at Pearl Harbor. I suspect that because it hurt my mother so much, she said nothing about it. [My parents did not meet until after WW2 had ended.] That is how I remember Pearl Harbor.

By: 11B40

11B40 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:50:22 +0000

Greetings: especially “Charles Martel” and “Caped Crusader”

Well, out here in the West, my day is dawning and I’m afraid that this rooster is about to crow a bit, if that’s the right word.

As I went through the day’s TV listing, my eye was caught by two “documentariy” programs to be broadcast by KCSM, the Progressive (née Public) Broadcasting System channel operated by the College of San Mateo, our local community college. At 9pm, it’s showing “In Time of War: The Japanese-American Experience of WW II” to be followed at 10pm by “Prange and Pearl Harbor: A Magnificent Obsession”.

Quod erat demonstrato. (A little Latin on Sunday morning is a good thing.)

By: Caped Crusader

Caped Crusader — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:28:10 +0000

Martel & 11B40:

One of the men the left loves to hate, J. Edgar Hoover, tried desperately to convince Roosevelt not to incarcerate the Japanese, since he had then under observation for several years, and that only a few hundred were not loyal and he could round them up in a few days. He advised him that the vast majority were very loyal citizens. It may have been a form of protective custody, knowing that the government would be starting a propaganda campaign to convince the populace they were worse than rats and must be eliminated. As i went to lunch at school daily, I passed a huge poster with a scowling buck toothed Jap soldier with thick glasses advising me he would like to kill me and not to save tin cans, tinfoil, grease,etc, needed for the war effort. No doubt in my mind if I saw such a person he was to be “terminated”.

By: Caped Crusader

Caped Crusader — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:05:54 +0000

Second only to Remember Pearl Harbor kids sang this song during WWll:

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:10:25 +0000

The Leftist Utopia may take 5 centuries to reach the pen ultimate culmination. In the meanwhile, they’ll be enjoying the luxuries they stole from the workers, making more sex slaves to abuse and profit from, and generally speaking, living the life of the Emperors Nero and Caligula until it all goes down in flames.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:08:35 +0000

You can blame the internment camps on FDR. Another Democrat great idea of how to control the masses. Which was just another way of saying all the Democrats took their property and gave it to themselves.

The Left did it, but they complain about it as if you did it.

By: 11B40

11B40 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 06:06:28 +0000

Greetings: especially “Charles Martel”

In a similarly perverse vein, I have often thought about what might have happened had the Japanese-Americans not been interned and their fellow Americans took it to mind to visit “unspeakable, nearly intolerable indignities and hostility” on them. Would we be listening to annual home front body count recitations in addition to the annual A-bomb bathos. Also, our beloved and patriotic media seems incapable of noticing the comparison between being interned and being drafted for four or so years. To one degree or another, the lives of most Americans were disrupted during those darkest of days.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 04:19:43 +0000

The mother of my best friend from high school was interned at Manzanar during WWII, a camp on the bleak east side of the Sierra Nevada in California. His father, a very brave but also angry and despotic man, was the only Japanese-American officer serving in the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet during the year. While serving he endured unspeakable, nearly intolerable indignities and hostility on the part of his fellow officers.

So I was familiar with the suffering that the internment of Japanese-Americans visited upon a patriotic people during the war.

But I never for a second conflated what we Americans did to our fellow citizens with what the Germans, Russians, Chinese, Japanese, Turks, Arabs and so many other nations have done to theirs.

That contrast in lost on the left. The reason why is more sinister than just the usual leftist doublethink where mass murdering societies never stink as much as ours. What’s sinister is this: If the leftist project against this country ever reaches its final goal, we will, indeed, see the 25 million murders of counter-revolutionaries that Bill Ayers smacks his lips over as the price for creating his and Bernardine’s paradise on earth.

A little more drastic than Manzanar, no? Unfortunately, all the people who could recognize the irony will have been murdered.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:36:55 +0000

Whether America has faith enough to kill domestic and foreign enemies remains to be seen. In WWI and WWII, such strength existed. But after more than 5 decades of Leftist occupation, it will be interesting to see if Americans still believe enough to kill and die for this nation. And this time, America won’t be fighting an enemy that believes in their own cause enough to kill and die for it. The Left has succeeded for most of this time because it is very good at manipulating other people into fighting and dying for it.

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 23:21:52 +0000

If I had a "like" button for comments, 11B40, I'd click it on your comment.