A date that shall live in infamy !

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

See I knew he couldent stand it.

Hm?
Catfish asked a valid question, I answered. If he did not mean it as a question, but rethorical only, then I failed - and still fail - to realise that. In both cases you must not feel concerned.

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I do not ignore Skybird. I do like talking with him. It's all good!

In fact we get along quite good despite obvious disagreements.

It's like that with many disagreeing people I meet on this board. But certainly not with all. Those who cannot differ between personal offence and opposing argument, are gone. What includes August.

Regarding Steve, I will not say a bad word about him just because of this communication meltdown we just have had. One event does not define all his identity, and since years I have learned to respect and to like him, for valid reasons, even if we never had much to talk personally. These reasons do not just disappear just because of this thread. - Scratch this one event off the list, move on. And if he does differently and avoids me from now on, that still cannot be a reason for me to change the way I see him due to his many other posts over the years.

In the end I am quite aware that I necessarily must raise opposition by what I say on the nature of war. Compared to today's majority opinion, what I say in here IS radical and brutal, and IS a provocation and IS violating self-comforting paroles people in the West have grown fond of so much. Or does anyone here seriously believe I am not aware of that...?

[August]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Or does anyone here seriously believe I am not aware of that...?

Me for one.

The japanese economy was only under threat from lack of oil because they went to war in China.
The cause of their "justification" for the attack on America was of their own making so it wasn't a justification at all.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Shirly you jest

Did you think I could pass up on this one?

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by August

Ha ha Well done Steve!

Sailor Steve; chess master

[I-25]

Just on a interesting note..

7 December 1941: The Attack on Pearl Harbor:
At dawn, the CYNTHIA OLSON is exactly on the projected point of interception. Cdr Yokota establishes her nationality, surfaces and fires a warning shot. The schooner sends a SOS signal and lowers her two lifeboats. The I-26 fires 18 shells from her 140-mm aft gun at a range of 1,000 meters, but the schooner refuses to sink. Twenty minutes after the first shot the I-26 receives the signal "Tora, tora, tora!" Cdr Yokota submerges and fires a torpedo from 450 yards. It passes astern because the burning schooner is still making headway. Yokota fires 29 more shells and the OLSON starts to settle. Two hours later, concerned about a possible American air attack, Cdr Yokota decides that the OLSON is sinking and departs. Later, the OLSON does sink at 33-42N, 145-29W. She is the first American merchant to be sunk by a Japanese submarine in World War II.

@I-25

Excellent post. Can you post it in the SH3 section too?
There are some folks over there that think a 20mm should be able to sink things.
It's a very small minority but, well, you get the idé.

[I-25]

link plz n.n