Response to editorial #11

Every island we take is one less island we have to take later. This tactic we are using island hopping is a very effective tactic. People say that it is a very dangerous tactic but else will we get every island those horrifying Japanese. Sometimes after a banzai attack we know that it is over because the Japanese think their belief called Bushido is that they should die for honor instead of surrender and still being able to live a good life. One major question is why would they commit suicide and take maybe one American life for honor and where do they get the honor from? Would it be their families? That would probably be it because everyone else would not notice you with all of the Japanese lives the Americans and myself have killed. Sometimes this tactic would work in the beginning because we are used to seeing the enemy in front of us like in Germany, but when we land on the island it is quiet and at one random moment they are all over tying to kill us, but now it is normal for almost all of us. Another way we get used to it is we bring a flamethrower to burn down the jungle. We kill a lot of them and that also forces them to attack so we now see it coming. Now we are moving to islands closer to the mainland of Japan like Iwo Jima and Okinawa. This island hopping on the pacific is now coming to be a useful tactic and makes the war closer to being over.