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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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.
When the Civil War ended, Abraham Lincoln wanted to bury the hatchet. If he had lived, I doubt we would have had reconstruction as we now read in our history. That seems reasonable as long as no war crimes get exonerated.
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.
“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.”
So tell us about your skin in the game of WWII. And why your skin outweighs the numerous vets who became friends with japanese vets, etc.
Anyway this guy died in 1976 and not the only point of the article.
saul of tarsus
Thanks, it is just disgusting to compare a Japanese navy carrier pilot to some Nazi, machine gunning groups of naked women in Ukraine, or running a deathcamp, or gassing people for their religion.
That was the author's word, the U.S. did not "Honor" him with citizenship......
The author unfortunately gathered his info for the story from Wikipedia (see his footnote), and we all know how accurate Wikipedia is don't we? Thus the error in the date when Fuchida was alleged to have been given citizenship - 1966. All other accounts on the internet claim 1960 but from what I have been able to find, they are merely rehashing of articles echoing the same information. In other words, we don't know if he actually became a citizen or not. But who really cares?
The author's attempt in his article is to point out the illegal immigration in this country, especially in Arizona. Why he chose this Christian evangelist Fuchida as a poster boy for his article does nothing to advance his argument on the current illegal immigration problem.
And for what it's worth, Fuchida died 35 years ago in 1976...Go figure
“saul of tarsus”
Rings a bell, don’t it?
When did we "let him in"?
Just curious, how many Japanese do you suppose immigrated to the United States between 1945 and lets say, 1970? And how many of them do you suppose may have served in the Japanese armed forces?
And while were on topic, how many Germans, Polish, French, Czechs, Russians, etc.. do you suppose may have come here during the same time period?
I come from a family who lived under Nazi occupation for over four years in France.
My grandad was in the resistance.
My uncle was in a concentration camp. He was 6’ 2” and disappeared one day during the occupation. He came back after the war weighing 55kg. He died a few years later. He had been abducted by the Germans and hauled off to a work camp. His name was Tony.
My dad lived on a farm in France. One day a German garrison came to take all the livestaock, butter, blood sausage, salami to feed the soldiers. His dad said they did not have any because they had hidden everything. The garrison proceeded to machine gun the farm house with heavy guns until there was rubble left of the farm house. He said it lasted well into the night and early morning. He was about 10 years old. If you know anything about that construction it is solid two foot thick rock wall construction. Five family members were buried alive because the Germans forced them to stay insde the farm house as they were pulverizing it.
This was very, very common during the war. Soldiers acting out like this becasue of those precious orders.
They were all doing their duty as soldiers according to the definitions on this blog. Nothing ever happened to them.
If you ever suggested to my family that these soldiers should be rewarded with French citizenship because well they were sorry and found god, I can tell you they would never have agreed to it. this would have been unimaginable.
You simply do not reward people for mass killings like this regradless of the circumstances. This is madness.
I’m just as curious. How many helped kill 2500 or more Americans at one time? How many led the pack resulting in the killing of thousdands?
I’m just as curious. How many helped kill 2500 or more Americans at one time? How many led the pack resulting in the killing of thousdands?
I’m just as curious. How many helped kill 2500 or more Americans at one time? How many led the pack resulting in the killing of thousdands?
My Dad served in the U.S. Navy ferrying the dying and wounded out and supplies in to hot spots like Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He could have adopted your attitude. Instead, he adopted the attitude that he was there to do a job and help turn an enemy into an American friend.
He was asked to serve in the occupation force after the war, an honor assigned to very few former combat veterans because of prevailing feelings at the time. During his service in the occupation, he came to admire the Japanese as did many who served with him.
See Post #25 for more on Fuchida's remarkable story. Kudos to DesertRhino for sharing it with all of us.
sorry but I’m not on this wagon
we had plenty of Germans who became citizens or whom we helped start over if they did something for us
many who were in camps here stayed and married American women and created lives here...one worked for our family business for many years after leaving the POW camp in Jackson MS
such is war and migration
Take the word "American" out of the equation and lets try Jimmy Doolittle for crimes against humanity.......
You want moral equivalence, lets do it........
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