Compassion for the Enemy - WWII Vet Hawaii 100th/442nd
Channel: johnnakagawa
Date: 13/11/2014

...funny thing you know. Even during war eh, it's human you know... when I looked at that I said gee you know he must have a parents. You cannot hate the guy. He must have brothers or sisters somehow. So I feel kind of pitiful. I felt bad that I was one of them that fired the rifle to kill the guy you know. But that's why human beings are strange sometimes you know. Even how much you hate that guy but, when you sit down and think about it, see they humans just like us you know. They have feelings, they have loved ones you know. That's why when I looked at that guy, I couldn't do anything because he's already dead. The motorcycle this way, and his head all shaved down all on the ground and he's just like that. That's why war is such a, I don't know, so strange you know, they killing each other.  But actually they don't want to really kill you. But you have to defend yourself eh. You either shoot, or they shoot you.  But it's strange, very strange feelings inside me.

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