WW II : RARE COLOR FILM : MIDWAY : DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD

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Prabhupada : Just like we had experience... I think in the First World War none of you had seen because you were all young men. And we were child. When the First World War was declared, we were all boys, schoolchildren. My age was at that time fourteen years old, in 1914, when there was fight declared between Germany and Belgium. So that was the First World War. Then Second World War was in 1939. That was also German and Englishmen, like that. But actually, this was also World War, this Battlefield of Kuruksetra, because all the kings of the world, they joined either this party or that party. So there were a great assembly of all worldly kings. Now, Krsna says that "Either Myself, either yourself, or these persons who have assembled here, they are individual. They were individuals in the past, they are now individuals, and they will continue to be individual even after annihilation of this body." Now, how you'll adjust? There are two theories, that after liberation all these souls, they become one. Just like all drops of water, if you put into the sea, they become one entity. There is no distinction. And the Lord Krsna says that "No, they keep their individuality. They do not mix." Now we are supposed... We are all laymen. We are ignorant, what is actually position, what is the actual position. But we have got our discretion also. Just like every one of you has some knowledge in the history. Now, in the history in the past... Suppose you are now thirty years old or thirty- five years old, and suppose two hundred years before, the history which you read, you find that all people were individuals. And at the present you are experiencing that all individual, they are. All living entities--either human being, or animals or birds, or anywhere--you can see that they are individual. Then why should you not believe that in future they will remain individual? Do you follow? In the past they were individuals, in the present they are individuals, and why not in future they'll remain individuals? It is naturally concluded that they will continue to be individuals. Even we do not have any sufficient knowledge in either of these two theories, mixing up or keeping individual, but by our own small reasoning we can understand that in the future history we have information that there were individual persons. At the present moment also, we are seeing that there are individual persons. So why not in the future? How it is that in the future they'll mix up and become one, homogeneous thing? It is quite reasonable. And this conclusion is like this: just like in two hundred years before, in the month of March, the climatic position was like this. And in 1966 we find in March the climatic position is exactly the same. And in future... Naturally I conclude that in future in March the same climatic condition will be there. In astronomy also, if you find that in March, in such and such date, the sun rising is like this, and actually in the present March, month of March, 1966, we see the same exact time... And the whole calculation of astronomy is made like that. They prepare hundred years' astronomical charts. Hundred years'. How they do prepare? By this calculation, that in the past it was like this, at the present it is like this, so naturally, in future it will be like this. Just like you are speaking of the imminent springtime, that the nature, how will be decorate, how springtime, it will be nice, because you had past experience. So you are foretelling. It is not foretelling. From past experience, you are telling that this will take place. This will take place.

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[DonMeaker]

Before Midway, at Wake Island the Marines, with a US Army signal corps detachment, repelled an amphibious invasion. They sent out a message:

"SEND MORE JAPS"

[dougalmac54]

US Naval air forces struck a sledgehammer blow against Japan's navy by sinking 4 of their first line carriers. This was not a matter of luck, but extreme skill, perseverance, and accuracy by US Navy dive bombers.

[kdbeaar]

@cabraden1 I will see if it's available at my library- I'm assuming it's a book- and read it if it is. Thank you for the recommendation. Happy holidays to you.

[cabraden1]

@cabraden1

You should check out "At Dawn We Slept", by Gordon Prange, ISBN #0-07-050669-8. It really delves

deeply into the Pearl Harbor attack from both the American and Japanese sides. Anyway, Merry Christmas.

[cabraden1]

@kdbeaar

You're right, Yamamoto attended Harvard between 1919 and 1921. He was also Naval Attache in Washington, DC after Harvard. He very well knew the potential industrial, economic and military power of the US. Unlike his colleagues who believed America to be "a hollow giant to fall and smash to pieces at the first blow", he knew America would be Japan's most formidable foe ever.

[kdbeaar]

@cabraden1 Your welcome. Yamamoto referred to America as a sleeping giant that Japan had only awakened, "...and it's reaction will be terrible." I also find it ironic that one of the only Japanese figures that knew that war with America was a bad idea, was the one to start it. I believe he knew about America because he went to college there. Please enlighten me on which college he attended. I want to say Harvard....

[cabraden1]

@kdbeaar

(continued from above blog) "....to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices."

[cabraden1]

@kdbeaar

Page 11 of "At Dawn We Slept", Yamamoto quoted as saying "Should hostilities break out between Japan and the

United States, it would not be enough that we take Guam and the Phillipines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate peace terms in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as...."

[cabraden1]

@kdbeaar

I meant Yamamoto, not Yamato. Thanks for the correction. I must have been thinking of battleships when I made the comment below. The irony of the attack was that Yamamoto, who strongly opposed war with the US, was the very person behind its planning. To quote the book, "At Dawn We Slept", Yamamoto clearly knew America vastly outstripped Japan in science, technology and especially natural resources. This is on

page 10 of the Chapter "On a Moonlight Night or at Dawn".

[kdbeaar]

@1cabraden Yamato was the name of Japan's largest battleship. The planner of operation 'Z' (attack on Pearl Harbor) was named Isoroku Yamamoto.

[82abnoff]

I not know , A 71542 from RVN.

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