[Milsurplus] December 7th, 1941

[mikea]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 07:42:31AM -0500, C.Whitaker wrote:
> de WB2CPN
> Theirs are some of the most beautifull and clean
> cities in the world, little if any crime.
> Out cities are mostly trash, and no future.
> So who won?
> Maybe they should have occupied us for a while.

I can't agree that our cities are mostly trash with no future, but maybe
I haven't seen the places you've seen, and maybe you haven't seen the
places I've seen. 

If I had my druthers, our cities would look more like Stockholm and Oslo
and Copenhagen and Turku. 

I lived in on the NW corner of Tokyo, in Asaka-shi, Saitama-ken, for
two years, and can't say that the cities in Japan are some of the most
beautiful and clean cities in the world, either. They stank of p*ss from
the benjo ditches, had paper and other trash on the streets, and weren't
particularly clean. The odor of Japan became apparent as the airplane
descended for landing. That does not mean that I disliked Japan, mind you:
I loved, and still love, it.

But my father was at Hickam Field 69 years ago this morning, and spent
the rest of the war doing EOD all over the South Pacific. I honor his
memory. My uncles fought the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Fascists. Not
all of them came back, and some of those who did spent years in prison
camps.

I strongly disagree with your contention that we might have benefited if
any of them had occupied us for a while.

Very 73, de

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin