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I was at the Arizona Memorial in 1992. There were 10 Japanese for every white person. Most were clearly WW2 vets. I saw three of them off in the corner having a laugh with smirks - on the memorial itself. I went over and asked their young guide if they spoke English. She said “No”, I asked if she was sure, she said “Yes” so I said tell them this for me “If they do not wipe that smile off their faces and show some respect for this place I will cut their throats and throw them in the ocean.” Followed with my best Alpha male stare. She hesitated and then I noticed that there were three Marine Gunnery Sargents at my shoulder. She repeated my message (I think) and they could not get their asses onto the next boat fast enough. The oldest Gunny shook my hand and thanked me. Several people came over and told me thanks and I got all “oh shucks” about it. Mrs. Mad says one day my temper will get me hurt. I tell her I just hope it was worth it.

God Bless you for that. I’ll never forget looking in my local paper one day, around the first week of August a few years ago and here was a letter to the editor from some middle-aged peacenik, going on about how terrible it was that the United States dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how war is just so terrible and the United States is... well, you get the jist. This woman represented some peace group and she put her phone number in the letter. Short of the story is I called her and gave her such a ration of poop she never put her phone number in that paper again. I said to her ‘You’re making common cause with a nation of people who put over a thousand kids into the mud of Pearl Harbor and you’re complaining about Hiroshima?’’ I said “Listen Madame, if Japan had won the bloody war, would you have been happier?’ I said “Are you sorry my country won WW2’’? She said “It’s my country too’’. I said “You could have fooled me’’. Suffice to say she never wrote that stupid paper again.