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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (23777)	10/10/2007 5:57:17 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219911

but the japanese are unquestionably neat and tidy per brianh and cb ilaine and you

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (23777)	10/10/2007 6:25:40 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219911

PBS is now playing Ken Burns' "The War," a seven part series about World War II, told from the perspective of Americans who participated. Well worth watching. pbs.org According to the American men who fought against the Japanese in WWII, the Japanese would fight to death and never surrender. This made them formidable enemies, the most formidable of any enemy we fought in that war. They despised Americans who surrendered as being weak and without honor, and mistreated them accordingly. There is footage of Japanese civilians committing suicide on Saipan, women jumping to their deaths off cliffs into the sea, with their children in their arms. The sailors said that there were hundreds of bodies of women and children floating in the water. After they saw the way the Japanese treated American prisoners of war, American soldiers no longer took prisoners. So the Japanese may have had reasons to fight to the death other than Japanese imperialism. Americans preferred the way of General George S. Patton: "Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." But there really is no good correlation between behavior in war and personal values. When pushed to the wall, even the best of us snap.