Posted on 12/08/2011 5:49:37 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
This is the incredible story of Mitsuo Fuchida, lead pilot of the December 7, 1941, raid on Pearl Harbor. Fuchida was the one who shouted the war cry, “Tora, Tora, Tora!”
Mitsuo Fuchida fought the United States throughout WWII and was intimately involved in the planning and leadership of the Japanese war effort as flight commander and later as a senior operations officer.
After the war, Fuchida was a defeated warrior in occupied Japan, farming to meet the needs of his family. He was also the only one to return to Japan after the bombing.
In 1950, Fuchida miraculously came to know Jesus Christ as Savior through a tract handed to him while exiting a train in Tokyo. The tract was entitled, “I Was a Prisoner of Japan,” written by Jacob DeShazer (read it here)who was one of the famous Doolittle Raiders. DeShazer trusted Christ as his Savior while held captive by Japan for 40 months. DeShazer went to Japan in 1948 as a missionary and preached to the nation who held him captive.
Fuchida faithfully served Jesus Christ as an evangelist until his death in 1976.
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Forgiveness is everyones job.
Amazingly enough, forgiveness is necessary, not for the one being forgiven, but the the one forgiving. It removes the poison of hate, grudge, malice from the forgivers heart.
Notice, nothing is said that there should be no consequences for actions. Fuchida dealt with conequences of his actions for the remainder of His life, I am sure. Yet, he was forgiven by the Lord.
Jesus said that someone who will not forgive will not be forgiven.
Prayers FRiend, for your heart.
You cannot compare a Naval Officer carrying out the lawful orders of his superiors to attack a legitimate military target to a terrorist fanatic hijacking a civilian aircraft and using it on a suicide mission.
Atta’s attack was a war crime, the wanton targeting and killing of civilians. Fuchida led an attack on legitimate Naval and Military targets.
Fuchida was not responsible for the decision to go to war. And not responsible for the delay in getting the defacto declaration of war to the US Secretary of Sate. He just did his job.
This is where that whole “let he who is without sin” part comes in.
As for Atta, that is another matter...
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