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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That’s very true.
However I’ve seen many cases where people at Pearl Harbor have let the past go and have become friends with some of the former adversaries that participated in the attack. it was a douche move on Japan’s part, but it was an official military engagement by an organized army of an recognized nation. Nothing like a 9-11 in those terms. It was respond in kind and the war happened to its conclusion.
I, as some guy in my early 30s, cant hold a grudge in the stead of the people back then. Japan was a completely reformed and friendly nation by the time I was born. Time had moved on. The war was over. This guy recognized he was in the wrong, and appears to have repented as much as humanly possible.
What else can you do at that point? If he was that repugnant to this nation, the U.S. military would have jailed or shot him when they had the chance after the war. They certainly knew what they were doing back then far better than we do.
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This guy claimed to have led Pearl Harbor, as well as many other sneak attacks across the Pacific. Been at the Battle of Midway, one of the few Japanese pilots who escaped with his life. Been at Hiroshima & attend the Japanese surrender on the USS MO. Oh & he was a witness at the Japanese war crimes tribunals.
Either this guy is the Japanese Forest Gump, or he is an abject Liar.
If he was such a believer in the Bushido code then why wasn’t he one of the kamikaze pilots towards the end of the war? Why did he sit by & watch 15-16 year old boys with little to no flight time enter the cockpits on their suicide missions?
In my opinion this guy was a coward, fake & fraud. We don’t need trash like him dis-honoring our country.
He was not part of any group within his military that systematically carried out orders as part of death camps.
There is a difference.
Maybe in a few years they’ll grant posthumous US citizenship to Osama Bin Looser?
Also, Japan was subject to administration under the USJMC after the war.
If was important, we could have gone after Hirihito, Yamamoto and many others.
The outcome was just and we’ve moved on.
During the Pearl Harbor attack hundreds of civilians were killed as well. Oh! Well collateral damage. No biggee. I can’t beleive how cavalier people are to simple brush aside this level of killing and explain it away.
I think there was a movie made based on that account. "I bombed Pearl Harbor"
What I find amazing, is that he survived the war!
Oh him again....
Can you believe it?
But we didn’t quit!
Finally someone with some sense. My point is that because of the level of killing he did, he should never have been granted citizenship. Why is it that felons are no allowed to vote but people who kill thousands are granted the right to vote? This is madness.
There are too many on this blog willing to explain away the killing of thousands since they did not have any skin in the game.
Yes. I couldn’t put it better.
“The past is the past. We have to move on. The USA was right in granting him citizenship. After all, he converted to Christianity.”
so did Obama. :/
Jacob DeShazer was a Doolittle bombardier. He was captured and imprisoned by the Japanese. HE could accept Fuchida as a friend and a brother in Christ.
If Jesus and a Doolittle raider can get over it, maybe you should too. Or point us to the Bible verse where Jesus said to never accept apologies, never forgive, and always throw the first stone. Fuchida wasn’t a member of a Mexican drug gang. And he wasn’t some homo NAZI who had the goal of killing all the civilians he could.
Jacob DeShazer was a Doolittle bombardier. He was captured and imprisoned by the Japanese. HE could accept Fuchida as a friend and a brother in Christ.
If Jesus and a Doolittle raider can get over it, maybe you should too. Or point us to the Bible verse where Jesus said to never accept apologies, never forgive, and always throw the first stone. Fuchida wasn’t a member of a Mexican drug gang. And he wasn’t some homo NAZI who had the goal of killing all the civilians he could.
Collateral damage for sure and ultimately the fault of the attackers, but except for a very few instances the Japanese carefully avoided non-military targets.
You can't say that about too many other military operations by any country in that war.
Precisely my point. It’s been ten years since 9-11. It would not surprise me if in 15 years the government announces that it is time to forgive the terrorists. After all they were following orders and they were poor and useful idiots; therefore, we should pay them reparations, maybe give their relatives social security, and apologize for making them attack us.
The government wnats to grant loans to build mosques. We are not that too far away. Thinkgs are so upside down that doen in the right way the more Americans you kill the more government goodies you get.
Precisely my point. It’s been ten years since 9-11. It would not surprise me if in 15 years the government announces that it is time to forgive the terrorists. After all they were following orders and they were poor and useful idiots; therefore, we should pay them reparations, maybe give their relatives social security, and apologize for making them attack us.
The government wnats to grant loans to build mosques. We are not that too far away. Thinkgs are so upside down that doen in the right way the more Americans you kill the more government goodies you get.
“we didn’t prosecute German soldiers. General officers & Wehrmacht were not prosecuted unless they committed war crimes? It was mainly SS & camp guards?”
they shouldn’t become US citizens!
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