OT: 83rd anniversary of Pearl Harbor American Heros

I see the libs correcting you all the time and I have never once corrected you.
But I would like to take this opportunity to correct you for the first time ever.
There is no Bob Evans in Casselberry......Bob Evans is on the south side of SR 436 which is Fern Park. You have to cross the street to be in Casselberry.

 

You are technically correct. The 32730 zip code is a bit confusing. You can Google the Bob Evans and some results will say Fern Park and some will say Casselberry if you Google the Rachel's strip club next door to Bob Evans on the same side of the road you get a Casselberry address on DuckDuckGo.

I have a friend with a Fern Park business address on O'brien Rd off 17-92. Sent him a package in the mail and the person I was ordering from on the phone told me their system said the address was in Casselberry, not Fern Park. The Winn Dixie down the street on the west side of 17-92 has a Fern Park address, many people probably think it is in Altamonte or Casselberry..

My friend (Thomas Henderson Ward III) who met Paul Tibbets lives in a neighborhood behind the Bob Evans. He would know the Bob Evans is in Fern Park. As a betting man my guess is you live in Fern Park or very close to it. Knowing it's in Fern Park is pretty localized knowledge. If I had to guess where you live I'd say a little west of Keewanee Trail and south of hwy 436. If you live in Casselberry maybe not far from Winter Park Rd. If those 2 guesses are wrong I'd guess you live near Red Bug Rd not far from where Hedy Lamarr lived. Many people don't realize she was a genius of sorts in science/math.

 

LOL just messin with you. But yes I do live in Casselberry, as a matter of fact the Mayor lives across the street from me. Maybe Ill ask him tomorrow if Bob Evans is in Casselberry or Fern Park.

Actually I think I have to correct you again.....Winter Park Rd I don't think goes as far north as Casselberry. I think you are thinking about Winter Park Dr....If so your guess is correct I live a block off Winter Park Dr but a mile or so north of where we are talking about.

 

Curious your thoughts about the Japanese about face, so to speak. They went from Pearl Harbor, to loving Americans, as you describe above. I suspect that was all the way up the chain, because the story goes that the U.S. helped to rebuild Japan after the war, almost to a fault. (it allowed Japan to become an economic giant) However, after becoming the economic behemoth, Japan didn't slow down their cordial relations with the U.S. and have now been a strong ally of the U.S. for decades in the Pacific. It seems the friendly partnership between the two governments has been genuine and mutually beneficial for a long time.

Did it take a while for our government to embrace this alliance? Was there something that happened which changed the dynamic (other than us bombing the hell out of Japan and forcing their surrender)? One could see how the atomic bombs would have left a lasting resentment in a people, but it seems to have had the opposite effect with the Japanese people (as you allude to above). I suppose kind of the same happened with Germany after the war, but with Japan, was it not almost exclusively the U.S. who helped to rebuild that nation and take them under our wing? So fascinating to think about, considering what took place from 1941 through 1945.

 

George Washington warned us about enemies

 

I was four years old.
At the time, it was just grownups being nice to me, whether the maid who was like a member of the family or the grown man we called a 'houseboy' who rushed me down downstairs to my mother's bridge club when I smashed my nose open jumping from furniture to furniture.
We lived right at the edge of military housing in Nagoya with the Japanese homes on a dirt street right across the fence. I used to wave to across the fence to an old guy and he'd always smile and wave back.
It was a few years later that I realized how soon after WWII it was, after Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And a few years after that that it really sunk in just how weird it really was.
How that evolved so quickly on a personal level, I have no idea.