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To: TobagoJack who wrote (2977)	12/30/2005 6:46:58 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 217794

Interesting TJ. That reads like an extract from business-class family doings during the heyday of the British Empire. I can't see the family problem with Tojo beating the Russians long, long ago. Political masters contrive to whip the gullible state serf suckers up to xenophobic patriotism. They fall for it time and and again. Family can just ignore the celebrations and turn a blind eye to those who get excited by them. Celebrating a win from a century ago seems odd. NZ is so ridiculous about such things that we celebrate a loss [Gallipoli] with fervour. I'm indifferent. Our son is named after a Turk [son of a now-deceased good bloke and family we met back in 1974 during our travels there]. My father's cousin carried Kiwi corpses and wounded in Anzac Cove, served in the horrors of WWI in France or Ypres or somewhere, got a top medal and was imprisoned in WWII for daring to speak out against war. Such is the hypocrisy of the fascist states. We have living with us right now Aki and his wife Shoko, whose relatives were of course involved in WWII in some or other capacity, while one of our daughters is living in Europe with a banana Chinese whose father escaped Mao's maelstrom in China, and then Hong Kong, and whose ancestors and relatives no doubt escaped Japanese depredations [or didn't]. And so on. I really can't get too worked up about whatever Tojo did. Or Japanese in Nanking, or Germans in Alsace, or WWII. Though it would still be nice to catch culpable people who have so far escaped the hunt for them. There must be few around who were old enough in 1945 to conduct horror operations. They'd have to be 80 now. I imagine nearly all of the Japanese soldiers involved in Nanking in the 1930s are long since dead. Iraqis aren't responsible for Saddam's debts and horrors. Germans aren't responsible for Adolf's [very very few of them anyway]. I don't bother with Anzac Day and whatever happened in Gallipoli, WWII etc. My father didn't either, and neither did his cousin Ormond Burton and they were in them. Celebrating beating the Russians? There's altogether too much obsession about history. Next thing you know, some losers in China will want to kill Taiwanese to rebalance some imagined 19th century cosmic equations of justice. Mqurice

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