It's December 7th 1941- the morning of the attack on Pearl Harbour. Commander Mitsuo Fuchida has all the Japanese pilots lined up and is giving them the pep talk before launching the attack.

"Brave soldiers of Japan. We must destroy the American dog's Pacific Fleet. We will fly our planes over their ships. We will drop high-explosive and incendiary bombs. Then we will circle back around and strafe the enemy with our machine guns until we run out of bullets. Then we will circle around one last time, don our Kamikaze headbands, fly up into the sun, and then, with the sun behind us we will swoop down and crash our planes into the remaining American warships and die for the glory of Japan. Are there any questions?"

Little Hirihito down the back raises his hand, and, his voice incredulous, says "Are there any fucking questions!?!"
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 10:29, Reply)