To: garbanzo
.. the novel Cryptonomicon.. A work of fiction.
Maybe all the skilled, highly-trained pilots were at the bottom of the sea, but not all the brave ones. The Samurai is not dead, only sleeping. The code of Bushi-Do is not something in books; it is in the blood.
A new challenge, and it is coming, will find the Warrior 'tradition' reappearing as from nowhere.
107 posted on
08/17/2006 9:18:55 PM PDT by
MrNatural
("...You want the truth!?...")
To: MrNatural
Maybe all the skilled, highly-trained pilots were at the bottom of the sea, but not all the brave ones. Those were pretty much the same category of folks. All the brave people signed up at the start. By the end of the war, the Japanese were drafting pretty much anyone who could stand up.
114 posted on
08/18/2006 4:27:12 AM PDT by
garbanzo
(Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.)
To: MrNatural
A new challenge, and it is coming, will find the Warrior 'tradition' reappearing as from nowhere. China is rising, as is Islam. Both will impact Japan in the Pacific. And they will soon realize that the US will not protect them forever
145 posted on
08/19/2006 7:58:52 AM PDT by
SauronOfMordor
(A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
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