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To: Clarksterh who wrote (30983)5/25/1999 9:04:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
OK Clark, I'll call a truce too! But I doubt the Okinawan suicides were from 'humiliation of surrender' rather than fear. Okinawans might have seriously believed that their surrender would mean life on the Burma Trail, execution, torture, whatever, at the hands of the USA. They might not know that apart from some vicious My Lai actions, most USA soldiers would calm down and not go berserk on taking over villages.

The fear is reasonable though in the case of the USA and NZ invaders, mostly unjustified.

Mothers and children aren't so much into the indignities of surrender. They go for life. It's the TMT crowd which does the mad stuff [mostly]. TMT = Too Much Testosterone as Ramsey's wife would put it. Mothers are more into protecting children though even in NZ, there are occasional mother and child/chidren desperate and anguished suicides.

Maurice
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