Posted on 09/11/2019 11:36:51 AM PDT by Renkluaf
Agree!
If you read about WWI many examples (particularly in the beginning!) of crazy crazy brave French soldiers.
Wasn’t that Audie Murphy?
Right but even in the depression, Americans fared much better than people elsewhere on the planet.
It’s the lesson that people all over the world should never forget:
What is good for the US, is good for the rest of the world... what is bad for the US is unbearable for the rest of the world.
Yes, indeed!
;^)
The Japanese bath house back in the day. where you shower first, then get into really hot water and soak awhile, and get out totally refreshed.
Another thing about the Japanese that got our respect. We’d pull into our shipyard after thirty days or more on the line. The shipyard workers were dressed in ragged old army uniforms. We saw they were cold, ragged and hungry. And yet with a whole shipyard full of things to slip away with,and sell they were too proud to steal.That got our attention and admiration.
And yet with a whole shipyard full of things to slip away with,and sell they were too proud to steal.
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I remember our first ‘briefing’ and being told to avoid the vegetables, (found out cheap whiskey cure to that), Japanese still believed in removing the part of the anatomy that ‘committed a crime’ etc etc..
Had some great liberties in Westpac, a hell of an ‘awakening’ for an 17/18 year old in 1957 that had led a somewhat ‘sheltered life’.
Made two more trips on the APA then got a transfer to an LST to be homeported in Yokosuka in 1960-62....
(almost) made a lifetime out of 5 years....
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