During war, two sides who disagree send their people to kill each other. Whichever side wins the fighting also wins the dispute. As a method for determining who’s right, it makes about as much sense as courts using trial by combat or political elections decided via tennis.
And so, every now and again, people on opposite ends of a conflict note the absurdity and say to themselves, “Hold on. Do I really hate that soldier on the other side?” Giving us stories like...
5. An American Captain Demanded a Proper Burial When a Kamikaze Fighter Hit His Ship
On April 11, 1945, a plane flew into the USS Missouri, a battleship off Japan’s coast. It was a Japanese kamikaze attack, but it hurt no one other than the pilot. Far from sinking the 60,000 ton vessel, it just set a small fire on deck, which the sailors quickly extinguished. One man on the ship managed to snap a photo of the incoming plane. He was “Buster” Campbell, an assistant baker on the ship who specialized in yummy donuts, and if even he didn’t panic upon seeing the incoming plane, we can assume few on the Missouri feared it.
