Building for War: The Epic Saga of the Civilian Contractors and Marines of Wake Island in World War II by Bonita Gilbert

Author:Bonita Gilbert [Gilbert, Bonita]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781612001418
Publisher: Casemate
Published: 2012-12-07T05:00:00+00:00

The war news is disquieting to say the least. I suppose it's always hard to reconcile ourselves to the other fellow's viewpoint as I must confess that I can't see where Japan has a leg to stand on. In the last analysis it is nothing but sheer greed on her part. If we admit her right to appropriate the other fellow's goods on the plea that the world has denied or limited her opportunities to acquire wealth, then we must grant the needy individual the same privilege to level private wealth. This is socialism or communism as you wish to call it, so we are treated to the analogous spectacle of a nation waging war through and by the principles of a social system she loudly proclaims a menace to her political security. If only her people and ours could see this clearly, war would be unthinkable. So we must accept war as a state made possible solely through ignorance of the people engaged in it. As Germany's social and political aims are identical with Japan's, this indictment strikes her in her most vulnerable area—her pretensions to leadership in culture. This all sounds logical to me but there must be some flaw in it for who am I to set myself against the accepted viewpoint of half the world. But I am willing to place and accept the blame for war where it really belongs—on the people themselves. If ever a people had the chance to rule themselves it was, and is, the Americans. And to me at least they are making a sad botch of the whole affair. There is not a living American who has not had the opportunity to learn the truth and what is published as the truth. It's mostly laziness that has held them back. It's so easy to read a newspaper with glaring headlines or an illustrated weekly and that is why we were a greater nation before we had those doubtful blessings. And in that happy era, people were inclined to a religious viewpoint. At least they tried to square their actions with religious precepts to some extent and questionable policy was subject to those limitations. I am not happy to admit this for my ideal would be a people, free through their own volition and not subject to either religious or political ideologies. That's Utopia and I fear we shall never reach it but the possibilities are inherent in man, so there is some hope.

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