purely

Okey 2022-04-20 09:01:41

This is a smart and lucky little boy. He doesn't have the mind of doctrine and dogma, and he doesn't know what an enemy is. He simply loves fighter jets. So in his mind there is no bloody side to war. When U.S. fighter jets bombed the airfield next to his concentration camp, he climbed up the tallest building and cheered loudly, not for victory and liberation, but for seeing his dream fighter jet soaring in the sky for the first time. Excited.

This is the purest soul I have ever felt. An American asked this little boy: "What have you learned from the people in the concentration camps in the past three years?" !

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  • [first lines]

    Narrator: [title card] In 1941 China and Japan had been in a state of undeclared war for four years. A Japanese army of occupation was in control of much of the countryside and many towns and cities. In Shanghai thousands of Westerners, protected by the diplomatic security of the International Settlement, continued to live as they had lived since the British came here in the 19th century and built in the image of their own country... built banking houses, hotels, offices, churches and homes that might have been uprooted from Liverpool or Surrey. Now their time was running out. Outside Shanghai the Japanese dug in and waited... for Pearl Harbor.

  • Basie: Don't let me down kid you're an American now.

    Jim: [in a Brooklyn accent] Hey how'ya doin' Frank?