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<blockquote data-quote="inyati13" data-source="post: 1077769" data-attributes="member: 17767"><p>Ryder's Quote, "I think it can be foolish and dangerous to label people cowards just because it is an emotional derogatory term."</p><p></p><p>GB, excellent job documenting your message and your argument is persuasive. What I take from your message, is that Japan dishonored the protocols of the initiation of war for that time period.</p><p></p><p>What is interesting is that the attack on Pearl Harbor can be called cowardly, because it was carried out without a state of War. On the other hand, if War had been declared, it is entirely appropriate to follow a strategy of unannounced and surprise attacks. Such as the bombing of strategic targets in every war beginning with WWI. In modern day actions like Afghanistan and Iraq, the use of drones falls into that category. Of course the mother of all aerial bombings was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan in 1945 killing approximately 300,000 civilians including women and children. Even though conducted in a declared state of war, it would have been impossible to prepare for.</p><p></p><p>Men died. A country was shocked. It spurred my dad and Uncle to enlist. Uncle Ben Becker landed on Omaha Beach and had his right gluteus maximus shot off. He survived it and lived the rest of his life with a disability, only to lose his eldest son, Johnny Becker in Vietnam. On my mothers side, Emerson William Mitchell was in the wave of Allies crossing the Pacific for an invasion of Japan when Little Boy and Fat Boy were dropped.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="inyati13, post: 1077769, member: 17767"] Ryder's Quote, "I think it can be foolish and dangerous to label people cowards just because it is an emotional derogatory term." GB, excellent job documenting your message and your argument is persuasive. What I take from your message, is that Japan dishonored the protocols of the initiation of war for that time period. What is interesting is that the attack on Pearl Harbor can be called cowardly, because it was carried out without a state of War. On the other hand, if War had been declared, it is entirely appropriate to follow a strategy of unannounced and surprise attacks. Such as the bombing of strategic targets in every war beginning with WWI. In modern day actions like Afghanistan and Iraq, the use of drones falls into that category. Of course the mother of all aerial bombings was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan in 1945 killing approximately 300,000 civilians including women and children. Even though conducted in a declared state of war, it would have been impossible to prepare for. Men died. A country was shocked. It spurred my dad and Uncle to enlist. Uncle Ben Becker landed on Omaha Beach and had his right gluteus maximus shot off. He survived it and lived the rest of his life with a disability, only to lose his eldest son, Johnny Becker in Vietnam. On my mothers side, Emerson William Mitchell was in the wave of Allies crossing the Pacific for an invasion of Japan when Little Boy and Fat Boy were dropped. [/QUOTE]
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