OT. kind of a rant

Regards "ringing ears" post. When I used the word "j_ps" to describe who bombed Pearl Harbor" I was blocked by the potty mouth filter. Yes, I know that word is an insult to the Japanese.
As an American of British origin I reserve the right to use the word J_p to describe those who commited the atrocities in WW2.
You young folks won't understand the feelings some of us have
about this subject.
I don't think the filter should try to control slang words. It is not a cuss word.

Sadly, its a PC world these days.

Hopefully, sanity will someday return.

Dean

A good friend of my Dad's was sent to Hong Kong with the forces just in time to be overrun. He died in a POW camp. My oldest cousin came back from Germany with a hide full of shrapnel and under arrest after "hunting" Germans after the massacre at Caen. Those memories marked a lot of people for life and they get passed on.
Desperately hard to forget them, maybe we can try to forgive but forgetting is not an option. That's what November 11 is about and remembering what the vets did for us all. I don't know if I would have the courage to do what they did.

I guess you can post it like it is and those of us who are old enough can still say the word here in our own homes--for right now anyway. Know how you feel, felt the same way upon returning to Ft. Hood from Viet Nam & they were taking our housing & giving it to the Vietnamese. Kinda brings out the hatred that can't be removed. Keith

Do a Google search of "J*ps Surrender". We weren't quite so thin skinned back then. TDF

To be "PC", I will just say that a "rose" is still a "rose" no matter what you call it, and we all know Pearl Harbor was not attacked by a rose bush.

Ever thought about starting and running your own web site/forum? You could then post anything you wanted to...........

I was at Atsugi, Japan in 1958, and the old-timers who had BTDT still went berzerk when they saw a Japanese military plane with the "meatball" on the side.

Worth watching.

Dean
Japenese Surrender

Saddly this country has gone/become so "PC" it makes me sick. While I understand the concept of being "tactful", as well as being "polite", in day to day life there comes a time when the past has to be remembered and spoken of as it was, not how some PC moniter thinks it should have been. Failure to do this results in the past being forgotten which is not a good thing. Though I can"t remember who said it I do remember from school that one of our forefathers made the statement along time ago to the effect that "Those that forget the past are doomed to repeat it".

Another thing that gets me is when someone makes a non-PC comment that reflects their true feelings and then rushes to apoligize for it when the PC crowd hollers. To me this is a slap in the face to all the veterans that died defending our right of free speach. So Hughb, from me, I offer up a thanks for reposting and standing up for what you feel and what you said (or wanted to say at least) with no apologies.

Spanish philosopher George Santayana is credited with first saying the phrase paraphrased in your post.

Dean
George Santayana

Someone once said "Being PC is kinda like picking up a turd by the clean end."

BINGO!!

It"s kind of like the Confederate Flag; people need to put on their big boy boxer shorts and deal with it.

It"s real history, folks!

The problem is that the filter can't determine context, so someone using that word because they don't like Honda's or Toyota's would be using that in a derogatory fashion while you are using it in the context of WWII jargon. It's not necessarily PC, just the filter can't discriminate between the different uses of the word. If you were on a WWII discussion board it probably wouldn't be a filtered word.

Were it not for the PC police, there would be no need for the word to be in the filter. Rather, only profane words would be filtered.

Dean

I liked that video , seen it before many times but it does my heart good to see what America was like before it got all soft in the butt.

There is really no problem with context for a filter, the only problem is with the folks that put the filter together in the first place, the political correctness folks will probably be the death of all of us in the end.
The wife and I got back from the Philippines last week, we took a day to go out to Corregidor, the movies can't give it justice, it pretty much is the way it was after the war, hard to believe the place was so big, and so many people died there, the buildings were very big and not much left, I didn't get out to Fort Drum this trip, google Fort Drum you will love what you see...
After we got down to Cebu we took all the neices and nephews over to Ormoc City and then to Tacloban City, we stopped at Palo Cathedral built in 1596, us military hospital from october 20 1944 to March 1945, then to red beach where the americans landed to start to re-take the islands, from there you can look out into Leyte Golf the place where the largest naval battle in history took place, and the sad part is so few people know anything about history, and even when you take them there they don't seem to be interested, I didn't know the battle for Ormoc Bay was as big as it was or that there were as many ships on the bottom of Ormoc Bay, I found a warehouse complex a few years ago built by the Japanese but no one around there seemed to care about it at all anymore..
Remember the USS Indianapolis, that was in the Philippine Sea, between Guam and Leyte Golf, hard to believe that so many are not at all interested in history, my neices and nephews are not so lucky, when we go over they get to go with us and I make them remember where we went and why we went there, this trip they even were at the last big house that the Marcos's built in Tacloban, and the house that Imelda Marcos still goes to, she grew up there, no signs on the road, just a great big fence and gate but we spent an hour walking around the place, was pretty fancy.
Like I said, it's a shame more folks are not more interested in history, or forget it so fast, what the Japanese did in the Philippines was nothing to them, they would have done it to the rest of the world if they had the chance..

http://webspace.webring.com/people/nu/usslsm51/ft_drum.html


http://www.travelsmart.net/ph/inquirer/issues/dec98/dec06/features/fea_main.htm


http://corregidor.org/chs_battery1/drum.htm

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My connection with this was British North Borneo. Except for a truck wreck that put my father in hospital we would have been there when the J_ps attacked. They took very few prisoners.

The "key Word" is very few prisioners...

During the war they were referred to as .--- .- .--. ... in the newspapers and out of them, a few other expletives added.

In "Nam" they were Dinks.