Thursday, November 03, 2011

SACRIFICE: KAMIKAZE MOON




"Refreshingly,


After the violent storm,


The moon rose radient."


~ Vice-Admiral Takijiro Ohnishi,


Commander, Kamikaze Special Attack Force


- his final haiku before committing suicide, 15 Aug 1945, quoted in Inoguchi and Nakajima, The Devine Wind, 1955

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