Posted on 09/18/2011 1:22:21 PM PDT by SGW
This man [ Mitsuo Fuchida ] who led the first wave of airplane attacks on Pearl Harbor during the Second World War was honored with United States citizenship in 1966. His attack caused the deaths of 2500 Americans the morning of December 7, 1941.
“After World War II ended, Fuchida became an evangelist Christian preacher and frequently travelled to the United States to minister to the Japanese expatriate community. He became a United States citizen in 1966.”
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2nd Lt. Owen Bagget. Sources:
Regards, Janey. ATP-MEL-I/I-Turbine/Jet
My Dad met some German pilots he could have faced in combat during the war. They got along well as old warriors often do. If he is willing to forgive the men who were trying to kill him, who am I to object?
There is a world of difference between deliberately machine-gunning innocent civilians and attacking the naval vessels of your country’s enemy under lawful orders from your chain of command. I agree, anyone who took part in a deliberate civilian massacre should never be given citizenship here, but that is not what Capt. Fuchida did.
Back in the 60s.
And I mean no disrespect to Lt Bagget. Its just the evidence for his claim is indirect & circumstantial.
This probably explains why respected biographers of the airwar in the Pacific, like Martin Caidin, have left it out of their writings, as interesting as it is.
By the way, if you think strafing enemy combatants in a vulnerable position was strictly a Japanese habit I'd urge YOU to do a little more research. You can start with the battle of Bismark Sea.
I think the sub commander "Dudley Walker Morton" was denied the CMOH because of controversy over a like incident
there also was the RMS Laconia incident,one of the few incidents I would call a allied war crime
I agree. What this guy did was a crime under the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunal. He deserved hanging more than U.S. citizenship.
Then God won't forgive you.
Mark 11:26 - "But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses."
Matthew 6:14, 15 - "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: , But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
He survived because after Midway (where he didn't fly because of appendicitis), he was promoted to staff officer and pretty much spent the rest of the war in an office in Japan.
I shudder to think how they treated that during that time....Mini Hari Kari
Yes! Those numbers were quoted by the Mexican government.
In the last four years, roughly 10,000 people have been killed on the US-Mexico border per year.
I am in close contact with some of the sheriff departments and they tell me it is horrific. A few months ago Sheriff Babeu of Pima County had to go begging for rifles for his officers because they did not have the fire power to defend themselves. He had to raise the money with donations and loaned rifles from gun manufacturers. This you can google quite easily and find. That is common knowledge.
There are also beheadings going on in Phoenix proper by the narco terrorists and Phoenix has not been dubbed the kidnap capital of the world for nothing. Sheriff Arpaio regularly raids human trafficking hideouts and uncovers dozens of people some already dead.
The information is not common knowledge because as soon as it appears in print it disappears. The crime on the border is horrific. It is also common knowledge that signs on Federal lands tell Americans not to go into park land because of drug traffic and it is unsafe. Hell Babeu has said that certain southern parts of Pima county have been abandonned to the drug traffickers because they do not have the man power to defend that part of the county.
Aren’t you speaking for god if you are saying he won’t “forgive you?”
It seems that people need to stop invoking god every five minutes as if they know what he will or will not do. By definition god is god and it does not need mortals to caryy his water.
That's because you have a healthy and natural tribalism.
Many other posters on this thread have had it beaten out of them through years of universalist propaganda and believe in nonsensical ideas like a "propositional nation" and other liberal claptrap.
Some want to go through life with their own rule book. It doesn't work that way...even if they think it does. There is a rule book...and all I did was quote one of the rules from the Judge of all.
If some guy takes a swing at me and I beat the living crap out of him, I won’t slap his hand away if he tries to apologize.
You quoted a book not the judge himself.
You quoted a book not the judge himself.
You quoted a book not the judge himself.
A Book?
I see we have no common point of reference. The "Judge" wrote the Book and on the day when he does judge...we will be going in separate directions unless you come to that understanding.
So...just to be clear: When you quote THE BOOK...you are quoting THE JUDGE. If you don't believe that, then God is whoever YOU define HIM to be...and not who He is. God has to be God as HE is...not as we imagine Him. Otherwise, all is moral relativism...God is not a judge...but an idea...and there is no truth...because it can't be defined. I don't walk through life that way. That's a sad existence...and an even sadder eternity.
And without quoting from a book...how do YOU know that God will forgive him? Apart from the Bible...what evidence do you have that God will forgive this man? Since you throw out the Bible as the Word of God and relegate its status to the mere letters of men...how can you say he will be forgiven by the "Judge?"
Is this a guess on your part?
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