I grew up shortly after WWII, having been born just 7 years after the evil Hitler murdered himself. My father was a gunnery officer on the USS Hyde. He spent 4 years in the Pacific theater fighting the Japanese, while my Mom and sister struggled without him. I just finished a book called "Flyboys: A True Story of Courage", by James Bradley. I cannot stress strongly enough the need for young people to read this book to get an understanding of the world at that time. If this generation does not have insight into the reality of powerful, wrongheaded, evil ideology and how it can affect the peace of the world, history will repeat itself... and it may then be too late to react. Some may know a little about Hitler and his fantasy of Arien superiority. We often hear the terrible true statistic of the 6 million Jews Hitler and his followers were responsible for slaughtering. Pure EVIL. At the same time, how many Chinese did the Japanese kill, most often by the actual Samurai sword, or through neglect and torture in prison camps? THIRTY million!!! Why did they decide to sweep the Pacific of all opposition, dominate other sovereign peoples, torture, rape and maim millions of innocents as well as combatants. Their leadership, headed by the Emporor Hirohito, decided they would treat the world to a renewed Samurai Spirit Warrior conquest, even though the true spirit of the Samurai had nothing to do with how they implemented their horrible war of atrocity. Many times more people were killed in WWII by the samurai sword of the Japanese than were killed by the atomic bombs and conventional bombing attacks combined! The book details, often quite gruesomely, the beheading and eating of their enemies, including some of our POWs. Cannabalizing their captured foes was one of the things the Japanese did that does not show up in our high schol text books, as far as I know.
Please do not misunderstand my motives in telling this. I hold not the least animosity toward the Japanese people. We have had numerous modern Japanese to our home and we pray for the nation of Japan, just as we pray for Germany and Afghanistan and Zimbabwe and other countries. The point is that EVIL exists and can gain great power over short amounts of time by those who sell out to EVIL itself to promote their way of life and to reduce all adversaries to slaves or death. (Approximately 125 million dead due to Communism). Untold numbers are now dead and dying at the hands of terrorists who claim to be followers of Islam. IF they get the weapons they want, they will take freedom from the whole world.... in your lifetime. If Germany had obtained the bomb before us, we would have lost the war. God prevented that. And God will prevent future world takeovers by EVIL people, but he will use key people of his chosing to stop the EVIL. Those key people include YOU and your generation. The Baby boomers, sons and daughters of the War generation, will all be gone before you know it, and YOU will be responsible for wisdom, understanding , and discernment. Make peace whenever you can. Trust in God, the true God of the true Scriptures, and pray for peace and seek peace. And realize that sheer EVIL people, such as the Nazis, and the false Samurai, and the radical Islamists, when they come to your door, will subjugate you and kill you and your family, unless you are willing to take a stand. May God lead you in your pursuit of both loving your enemies and protecting your loved ones and the innnocents of the world.
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