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Kill Yamamoto: The Mission to Avenge Pearl Harbor - Part 2

Conflicted: A History Podcast

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I Love You So Much That Even Dreaming About You Every Night Is Not Enough

Two weeks earlier, on friday, april second, 19 forty three isoroko yama moto sat down in his personal quarters aboard his flagship and wrote a letter to a certain gesha back in tokio. He'd recently gotten two letters from her, and he wanted to promptly respond so she wouldn't worry about him. To soften that disappointment, he included a lock of his hair in the envelope as well as a highcoup poem, if i think of you as ordinary passion dictates. Of course, an english translation doesn't really do justice to what was likely very beautiful phrasing in the original japanese. At least that's my interpretation. But hi

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