My understanding of history is quite concrete, narbo, and so is my sense of right and wrong.
And I have determined that it is wrong to waste my time defending the honor of our WW II vets to one who has one goal in mind........to besmirch it.
In all my years on FR, I have never had to do so, and clearly, it was a waste of time with you.
I will not return for any more of your drooling over Lindbergh, nor your attempts to make one man's opinion 'history.'
You have failed, because it isn't valid argumentation.
Good bye, narby. Don't ping me again.
I will not return for any more of your drooling over Lindbergh
Well forget Lindbergh and follow the link and read about Guy Gabaldon from Los Angeles, who single handedly captured 1500 Japanese on Siapan. He won a silver star for his bravery, but it certianly should be a Congressional Medal of Honor.
Had Gabaldon's experience been just one occasion, you could write it off as a fluke. But he brought in large numbers of prisoners on multiple occasions. One time leading 800 Japanese soldiers and civilians, many still armed that could have killed him with one shot.
Gabaldon's experience demonstrates that it was true that the Japanese normally refused to surrender. It's just that no one bothers to tell you that the reason is because we refused to let them. Gabaldon spoke a tattering of Japanese and could convince them that he would not kill them, whereupon they immediatly surrendered.