Well, to be honest, you are comparing apples to oranges there Ian. It was an attack not just a shoot out. We didn't do this to ourselves, it was done to us. Plus, Ian, what if... someone had a weapon ( a gun) aboard those planes besides the enemy? That could had changed the course of the lives for at least 3,000 people and their families.
I talked many times with a Seabee while growing up, he was a neighbor, friend, and a suvivor of Pearl Harbor. He showed me all the pictures, he was a grand man.
Another survivor of the same attack, Pearl Harbor, had Non Hodgkins, and I was asked to visit him when he was diagnosed. When I found out he was there at Pearl Harbor, it helped to take his mind off of his illness in talking about it. When he passed, he left me all his pictures and mementos. He was funny, he always wished he was 60 years younger, and then I would tell him he was too young for me.
He ended up taking his own life in his garage.
If you talked to any of those men during those times in Hawaii you would readily, understand what I am saying.
Years ago, I got to know a surgeon who was from Japan whose family moved to Hawaii,
and as a little boy he was riding his bike to school that eventful day. I heard the stories from 3 different people, and how funny, they all say the same thing. This surgeon asked me to write his story for him back then, since then has asked again, and maybe, I will accept and do it. He lives nearby, but, he is very hard to understand, we would work through tapes, but even so, that is not an easy thing.
You say tomato, I say Tomato, someone who attacks you in my book, is your enemy.