Protection and grazing ground for the cows are among the essential needs for society and the welfare of people in general. The animal fat required for the human body can be well derived from cow's milk. Cow's milk is very important for human energy, and the economic development of society depends on sufficient food grains, sufficient milk, and sufficient transportation and distribution of these products. Lord Sri Krsna, by His personal example, taught us the importance of cow protection, which is meant not only for the Indian climate but for all human beings all over the universe.
I have to remember that these men were fighting for freedom all over the world and so that I could be born free a short time after the war ended! They are all heroes to me! My father’s oldest brother died on the USS Liscombe Bay in the pacific!
When the Japanese commander made his boast about a million men not taking Tarawa, he didn't realize that US marines aren't normal men! They're probably the toughest around.
Ignorant people, such as certain commentators, are the threat to the world. About 140,000 Japanese died immediately from the 2 bombs. Now compare that to the tens of millions of Chinese, Koreans, Philippinos, Malaysians, Indonesians, Vietnamese, and Burmese that died from the Japanese. It wasn't the Americans holding contests to see who could behead the most people with swords. It wasn't the Americans abusing tens of thousands of Chinese women and girls in Nanking, many of single digit ages, often to death. It wasn't the Americans that tied live civilians to posts for bayonet practice. Learn at least some 6th grade history before commenting.
Devotees should not even be surprised this could happen, remember everything is happening under the influence of the age of Kali. As Iskcon got wealthier age of Kali influences got stronger... Prabhupada was able to resist due to his purity, the same can't be said for his senior followers.
My dad was a machine gunner on Iwo. Of the 230 men in my dad's company all but 11 were either killed or wounded on Iwo. In 1995 I took my dad over to Iwo to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the taking of Iwo Jima. My dad lost 4 close buddies on Iwo. Semper Fi.
Well, those were different times, and public perceptions were often vastly different from what they are now. For us Indians, the British Raj had become an absolute brutality, and we were thrilled to see the British and other European colonial powers being whacked black and blue by a fellow Asian nation - the Japanese. Indians therefore volunteered to raise the Indian National Army with Japanese collaboration after the Fall of Singapore. For the Chinese, the story was diametrically opposite. Although they were victims of European domination too, they were treated with much more savagery by the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese Wars, and had no particular reason to rejoice at the Fall of Singapore. One can only hope that the nations of Asia come to terms with their uncomfortable past, and strive for a reasonably peaceful coexistence.
