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Why they’re still Japs

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Usually several things have to come together to stimulate a post from me.  I’m lousy at writing off-the-cuff.  Today that happened.

I came back to my cabin, finished the audio book and sat and thought.  I thought some more about Bill.  I thought about what my dear late father, Eben DeArmond, also a highly decorated war hero, went through after his wounding at the Battle of St. Lo.  I thought about that PC prick who wrote his little name-calling comment.  Then I thought about all the people, especially those significantly younger than me, who have grown up being fed exclusively the PC version of history.  I decided that it was time to write a very un-PC article.

In the book, Alex documents the last voyage and the sinking of the USS Tang, the most highly decorated sub in WWII and the sub with the most kills.  As President Truman referred to it, “The Best of the Best”.

On the last shot of the mission before they were to go home, the torpedo they launched malfunctioned, circled around and struck the Tang, sinking her.  Miraculously, 9 sailors including the captain escaped from the ocean bottom, only to be captured by a Jap naval patrol.  The rest of the book describes what the Japs put these men through.

They were taken to Camp Ofuma, a Jap POW camp.  Here they were subjected to all manner of torture and deprivation, perhaps rivaled only by the Nazis.  Because they were submariners and because the US subs were doing such an awesome job of killing Jap shipping, they were tortured especially badly.

The survivors of the camp describe such things as running razor blades under fingernails, “water curing” which involved forcing enough water into the prisoner to inflate his stomach and then beating his stomach with clubs, poking pencils between their fingers and savage beatings with baseball bats.

The passage that got to me the most is excerpted below as an about 4 minute MP3 audio file of about 500kb.  I don’t want to say anything else about it.  Just listen.

Camp Ofuma Beating

If you’re like me, you now have a tear or two leaking out of your eyes.  How can something that calls itself a member of the human race do that?  Especially when there is no purpose other than revenge.  “Jap” is about the nicest name I can think of.

“Oh”, but you say, “They’re not like that now.”  Says whom?  The still teach their kids that they didn’t start the war with us.  They have a history of a thousand years or so of brutal warrior culture and that didn’t change just because they got nuked a little.  Like a recessive gene, it is suppressed right now but given the opportunity, the imperial warrior culture could resurrect itself literally overnight.

Am I advocating doing anything to modern day Japs?  Of course not.  Do I want to go out and “Slap a Jap”?  Nope.  I appreciate how far they’ve come and heck, I like Jap cars too. :-)  The purpose of this post is to stimulate you, especially if you’re under about 40, to dig below the crap you were taught in school and learn the real history.  Find a WWII Pacific Theater vet while you still can and talk to him.  Visit the D-Day museum in New Orleans.  If you can come out of there with clear eyes, you’re a hard, hard person.   My last reason is, as the Jewish say

Never Forget

Finally, I urge you to get the book, preferably the audio book version, as the narrator, Richard Poe does a marvelous job.  The audio version is probably twice as good as print.

John

PS: The first person who tries to equate this stuff to Abu Grabe or Gitmo will become my very first banned reader.  If you can even contemplate such an equivalence then you’re too ignorant to occupy space on my blog.

Posted by neonjohn on January 2nd, 2009 under History, Philosophy

3 Responses to “Why they’re still Japs”

  1. Richard Says:
    September 3rd, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    Thanks John,
    I must commend you on a truly fascinating
    website. It’s the best one I have stumbled across in years.

    73 de K5BTP

  2. Ben Says:
    January 26th, 2014 at 6:53 pm

    I have an older friend who had family members suffer horribly at the hands of the Japanese in the Second World War. I, too, am tired of the PC crap.

  3. Bill Dean Says:
    June 9th, 2016 at 5:52 am

    found an old link and am again enjoying your blog—such a variety of interesting and useful stuff.
    I was born in Feb 1942 and have vague memories of my parents happiness on VJ and VE Day. (father too old for military so worked for North American Aviation)
    Google Dark Angel, the American pilot who “shot down” an American plane to prevent capture and torture by Japs in Philippines.
    Thanks for a truly interesting and informative blog.

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