Received: from webshielde500.tamuk.edu (e500out.tamuk.edu [139.94.223.17]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h1OIJDP17598 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:19:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from webmail.tamuk.edu(139.94.97.212) by webshielde500.tamuk.edu via csmap id 22483; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:16:13 -0600 (CST) X-WebMail-UserID: karad00 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:47:26 -0600 Sender: Rebecca Davis <karad00@tamuk.edu> From: Rebecca Davis <karad00@tamuk.edu> To: nifl-esl@nifl.gov X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00003220 Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8590] RE: War as a cross-cultural issue Message-ID: <3E2F8C02@webmail> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: WebMail (Hydra) SMTP v3.62 Status: O Content-Length: 1898 Lines: 44 Maybe you should remind your students that the Japanese attached us on December 2, 1941. My father-in-law was a Japanese prisoner of war. During his four years in Japan he was starved, beaten and given no medical treatment. How about the Japanese attachs in China. The rape of Nan King? It appears to me that your students need to learn more about their own history. >===== Original Message From nifl-esl@nifl.gov ===== >Well here I am, an American in Fukui, Japan, and I have EFL students asking >me, Why does the US attack everyone all the time? Why has war become almost >an annual event? > >What do I say? My country right or wrong? That American's unsurpassed power >somehow gives it the moral right to decide who lives and who dies? > >Do I get indignant and tell my students they are talking 'crap'? My students >right here in Fukui City can go ask their grandparents if they want to hear >real memories of what war actually means. The entire city was incinerated, >and the forested hill in the center became one giant charnel. > >I walk there every week among the trees and look at the thousands upon >thousands of gravestones that show life after life barely lived and then >snuffed out. > >Indignation is cheap. I don't think of their questions as attacks. I tell >them what my views are, and they actually appear thankful that not all >Americans think like the current administration does. > >I suggest some Americans I know review what freedom of speech means. They >might start with the recent articles of John Pilger, an Australian. Written >in a plain English that most federal emergency management bureaucrats can't >touch. You might also ask why is it that such blunt journalism makes up less >than 1% of what is published and almost none of it in the mainstream press >in the US. > >Charles Jannuzi >Fukui, Japan > > > > >*** Message Scanned By McAfee e500 - TAMUK ***
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