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Are there no better options that to embark on a suicide mission for a regime you don't believe in? Maybe you can try to survive the mission and give yourself in to the enemy? A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
In another note, he wrote to his parents (translation mine):
This young man was just extraordinary. There is none like him, before or after.
Uehara was educated in college, but there was another navy lieutenant, Usubuchi who went to the cadet school. On board the battleship Yamato on another suicide mission, young college graduate officers couldn't understand the mission, whereas the cadet school graduates were enraged that questioning the mission was betrayal. They were about to fight, when this young gunroom chief calmed them all down with these words (recounted by a survivor, translation mine):
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