Chapter 82: Ends Justifying Means

Looking at my desk, I spot a dvd my father lent to me. It is called 'Battle of Britain', which sadly, I have yet to watch.

Maybe I will watch it in the afternoon, since it's a weekend when that I plan to spend staying at home anyway. It is a small tradition of mine, to spend the last weekend of the holidays preparing myself for the next semester, both mentally and through preparing the necessary materials.

I remember when my father mentioned Admiral Yamamoto, who was weary of America's strength during the second World War, both industrially and in terms of military and political might. He knew that it was a mistake to attack them at that time.

When he claimed that President Roosevelt's order of killing the Admiral outside battle grounds was an act of murder, I had a few thoughts on that view.

Personally, I do not hold it against the ex-president. As a matter of fact, I think it was the right decision. They had information on where he would be, and how he would be relatively unprotected. If they had not killed him there and now, that opportunity would be lost, and in return, he might return to command in battle and be reponsible for the lives of his own soldiers.

Maybe there might have been a loss of honour... But weighing that against the value of lives and his duty to protect them... Maybe I would have done the same thing as well.