The fires that get going are unstoppable, writes im jontol the rising sun. The captain of one carrier refused to leave his position at the compass. There is a lot of a story about japanese commanders on these ships and higher officers deliberately choosing to go down with them. Some of these guys tie themselves, you know, to things on the bridge they go down. And it's both foreign to non japanese people in some respects, but touches a deeper human part of your soul,. h when you think about human beings in that position, and how would you behave, wouldn't you?