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2007-06-21 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-06-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 For the US, it will always remain Iwo Jima. But, I think anyone who manages to survive there can call it anything they like, especially if that was the the historic Japanese name. It doesn't affect us or our memories and it makes them happy. Win-win.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-06-21 00:33|| 2007-06-21 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Time for Guam, Vanuatu, + all Micronesia [or at least the Carolines]to declare war.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-06-21 00:35|| 2007-06-21 00:35|| Front Page Top

#3 keep us abreast Joe.

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Posted by RD">RD 2007-06-21 01:45|| 2007-06-21 01:45|| Front Page Top

#4 You need my approval before Vanuatu declares war

Posted by John Frum 2007-06-21 06:31|| 2007-06-21 06:31|| Front Page Top

#5 From wikipedia:

In 2006, the New Economics Foundation and Friends of the Earth environmentalist group rated Vanuatu as the most happy place to live of 178 nations all over the world using the Happy Planet Index.[2]

Posted by 3dc 2007-06-21 09:11|| 2007-06-21 09:11|| Front Page Top

#6 AH, John Frum.. I didn't read far enough:

Because of the modernities that soldiers in World War II brought with them when they came to the island, several cargo cults developed. Many died out, but the John Frum cult on Tanna is still large, and has adherents in the parliament.

A clutch of villages on Tanna are also known to worship Great Britain's Prince Phillip. Villagers believed in an ancient story about the pale-skinned son of a mountain spirit venturing across the seas to look for a powerful woman to marry. Prince Phillip, having visited the island with his new wife Queen Elizabeth, fitted the description exactly, and is therefore revered and even held as a god around the isle of Tanna.

Posted by 3dc 2007-06-21 09:14|| 2007-06-21 09:14|| Front Page Top

#7 I declare war on Vanuatu.

Bombing will begin in 5 minutes.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-06-21 10:15|| 2007-06-21 10:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey you crazy Japs, if you don't like the movie, then don't buy the DVD.

Posted by wxjames 2007-06-21 10:59|| 2007-06-21 10:59|| Front Page Top

#9 The USA should have kept Iwo Jima as its territory, spoils of war. But the name will endure as long as the stories of courage & honor are told to the generations to come.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-06-21 13:47|| 2007-06-21 13:47|| Front Page Top

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