On 9/11/2015 9:50 AM, Kokopelli wrote:
> On 9/11/2015 1:47 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>> On 9/11/2015 9:03 AM, Kokopelli wrote:
>>> On 9/11/2015 12:55 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 10:03:25 PM UTC-10, Alan Holbrook
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> gtr > wrote in news:2015091008285156154-xxx@yyyzzz:
>>>>>
>>>>>> .
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've never heard or seen a Japanese person "explode" or scream, and
>>>>>> have been there a lot. But I'm sure it happens. Especially at
>>>>>> restaurants in tourist areas--like Kamakura.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yep, very, very unusual, but it happened. In two years in Japan, it
>>>>> only
>>>>> happened one other time, when we were walking around in Tokyo. We
>>>>> passed
>>>>> an old man in a WWII Japanese army uniform who started yelling loudly
>>>>> at us
>>>>> when he saw our USN uniforms. The other Japanese people around him
>>>>> seemed
>>>>> quite embarrased by his behavior, and several of them tried to hush
>>>>> him.
>>>>>
>>>>> Overwhelmingly, the Japanese people I met during two years in
>>>>> Yokosuka were
>>>>> invariably polite and genuinely friendly. It was a great experience.
>>>>
>>>> My dad was in Japan in 1946 as part of the occupation forces. He said
>>>> the people in the street would move out of the way when he walked down
>>>> the street in uniform. Their defeat was total and they would look down
>>>> on the ground when he passed them. He said it was the most pitiful
>>>> thing he ever saw.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Wow.
>>>
>>> I wonder if the Germans were as chastened as a nation.
>>
>> Hitler, Hirohito, Roosevelt, Stalin - only one of them was generally
>> regarded as a God. If you want to thoroughly defeat a country, take away
>> their God. In this way, you'll also remove all their hopes and dreams.
>
>
> That's an observation that resonates.

You have to wonder what would have happened if McArthur had executed
Hirohito. Look what it did for Jesus.

On 9/11/2015 1:55 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 9/11/2015 9:50 AM, Kokopelli wrote:
>> On 9/11/2015 1:47 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>> On 9/11/2015 9:03 AM, Kokopelli wrote:
>>>> On 9/11/2015 12:55 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 10:03:25 PM UTC-10, Alan Holbrook
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> gtr > wrote in news:2015091008285156154-xxx@yyyzzz:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've never heard or seen a Japanese person "explode" or scream, and
>>>>>>> have been there a lot. But I'm sure it happens. Especially at
>>>>>>> restaurants in tourist areas--like Kamakura.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yep, very, very unusual, but it happened. In two years in Japan, it
>>>>>> only
>>>>>> happened one other time, when we were walking around in Tokyo. We
>>>>>> passed
>>>>>> an old man in a WWII Japanese army uniform who started yelling loudly
>>>>>> at us
>>>>>> when he saw our USN uniforms. The other Japanese people around him
>>>>>> seemed
>>>>>> quite embarrased by his behavior, and several of them tried to hush
>>>>>> him.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Overwhelmingly, the Japanese people I met during two years in
>>>>>> Yokosuka were
>>>>>> invariably polite and genuinely friendly. It was a great experience.
>>>>>
>>>>> My dad was in Japan in 1946 as part of the occupation forces. He said
>>>>> the people in the street would move out of the way when he walked down
>>>>> the street in uniform. Their defeat was total and they would look down
>>>>> on the ground when he passed them. He said it was the most pitiful
>>>>> thing he ever saw.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Wow.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if the Germans were as chastened as a nation.
>>>
>>> Hitler, Hirohito, Roosevelt, Stalin - only one of them was generally
>>> regarded as a God. If you want to thoroughly defeat a country, take away
>>> their God. In this way, you'll also remove all their hopes and dreams.
>>
>>
>> That's an observation that resonates.
>
> You have to wonder what would have happened if McArthur had executed
> Hirohito. Look what it did for Jesus.

OMG!

That the world did not need!