Received: from mailhost.chi1.ameritech.net (mailhost1-chcgil.chcgil.ameritech.net [206.141.192.67]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h1P1jWP11571 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:45:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from LabK ([67.38.127.158]) by mailhost.chi1.ameritech.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with SMTP id <20030225014533.WCVM9465.mailhost.chi1.ameritech.net@LabK> for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:45:33 -0600 From: "John Kamplain" <john_kamplain@albanyparkcommunitycenter.org> To: <nifl-esl@nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8604] RE: RE: War as a cross-cultural issue Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:47:48 -0600 Message-ID: <FLEIJPFJGNEBFCGDMABPAEDHCEAA.john_kamplain@albanyparkcommunitycenter.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <3E2F8C02@webmail> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Status: O Content-Length: 2304 Lines: 67 Good response, Rebecca. I agree wholeheartedly. > -----Original Message----- > From: nifl-esl@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-esl@nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Rebecca > Davis > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:22 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8590] RE: War as a cross-cultural issue > > > 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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