By While the US Navy has been busy bring in relief supplies other US military personnel from Misawa Airbase have been busy assisting in the clean up of a local village:
Army Sgt. 1st Class Brent Bell has spent two days ankle-deep in sludge, helping Japanese residents of Hachinohe clean up after a 9-foot tsunami hit the city following the March 11 earthquake.
“We live in Japan, it’s our home, too,” Bell said while taking a break Thursday from shoveling debris and sludge out of buildings along the fishing port, about a 45-minute drive from Misawa Air Base, where he’s stationed. “We’ve got to help clean up our house.”
A few hundred yards up the road, about 180 more Misawa Air Base volunteers filed out of base-provided buses and began tackling large stacks of metal frames and wooden pallets that had been swept through the area in a river of debris.
The volunteers are part of Operation Tomodachi, a U.S. Forces Japan effort to provide humanitarian assistance to a shell-shocked Japanese community still reeling from the worst recorded earthquake to hit the island nation. [Stars & Stripes]
Read more at the link but this is great work by everyone assisting in the clean up effort, especially considering the uncertainty surrounding the nuclear issue that is causing some military families to evacuate Japan.
1:02 am on March 18th, 2011 1
Few Americans who are helping out – good for them. Too bad so many are making fun of this tragedy that has killed over 14,000+ people. I've already gave you a link with hundreds of Americans on Twitter making comments about Pearl Harbor and laughing. Now comes word that popular American commentators Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck were making comments and laughing and giggling at the Japanese. They must be delirious that one of America's economic competitors is knocked out on its feet.
I know exactly what the responses here will be.
7:49 pm on March 18th, 2011 2
Americans strongly support Japan, especially now during this crisis.
7:51 pm on March 18th, 2011 3
The americans in uniform are showing everyone why we are such a great nation. We are there, helping everyone, and we show our love for the USA and Japan by working hard to keep everyone safe and free.
7:52 pm on March 18th, 2011 4
God Bless those in uniform who are helping Japan in that country's time of crisis.
8:40 pm on March 18th, 2011 5
But the truth is, many Americans including their top media persons are laughing at Japan.
8:58 pm on March 18th, 2011 6
Compare the mature responses from Korean and Korean media to this tragedy. Then compare how Americans like these react.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vH_n7xqNKs
What a clown. lol. Not one word of concern for Japanese victims, but everything to do with the United States. How selfish and the US is the center of life attitude. This just tells us how much of a slide the US is going under. Terrible.
9:39 pm on March 18th, 2011 7
Tom 1, do you have links to Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck making comments and laughing and giggling at the Japanese?
12:13 am on March 19th, 2011 8
But the truth is tom, you are just a hater—and a liar. Let me say that again, very slowly.
Tom is a LIAR. I don' know about other Talking Heads, but I watch Glen Beck every day. Beck has nothing but Respect for the Japanese People.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThPFtL5uevw
There are stupid people in every group. Just look at Tom.
12:28 am on March 19th, 2011 9
Here's your proof, Hillbilly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7DFuDs4oo4
"There are stupid people in every group. "
Just the line I was waiting for. It's the same line that excuses the white people. Go back to 2002 with the 9/11, when there was a news report that some Korean children were joking and singing about Bin Laden. The expat population went ballistic, and condemned every single Korean they can think of. Here we are almost ten years later. What do the same white guys say now?
"There are stupid people everywhere in every group".
Yeah right, only when white people do it.
lol.
1:03 am on March 19th, 2011 10
I still remember the koreans clapping their hands in the movie house, every time and american would get killed in the movie, (We were Soldiers).
Unlike you, I know they were the stupid Koreans. Not all Koreans.
As far as Populations going ballistic, Koreans do that whenever they are INSTRUCTED to do so.
I was in Korea in 2002 and 2003. I remember the RIOTS of unhinged koreans.
That collective HATE shown on korean tv toward Americans. The stabbing. The kidnapping of American Soldiers.
Koreans have no moral ground to stand on. As a country. I can do as you do. I can blame the entire Korean race for that. If that is the way you want to play this, I can do it.
5:00 am on March 19th, 2011 11
Tom – did you go to – are you still in public high school in the US? That would explain everything.
5:29 am on March 19th, 2011 12
I mean, it makes sense, if you want people to love their country and hate on the US for life then force them to go to public middle and high school in a district with your worst rednecks and bullies possible while being racially different.
http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blo…
Probably most of the commentators on this blog had to go through public high school in the US.
Anyway, Tom – I don't mean it as a personal attack and I don't know about your background other than that you know Korean, German, and English – but you come off like you've got a chip on your shoulder from being in the US during your teenage years. You could have been in Canada for all I know but sometimes I seriously really do wonder if you're in your senior year of high school.
8:04 am on March 19th, 2011 13
Tom 9, the clip shows a little silliness by Rush and Glen, and a lot of hot air by Ed. It looked to me like Rush and Glen were ridiculing environmentalists, not the Japanese.
By the way, the deaths from nuclear energy should be compared with the deaths from coal and oil. I haven't seen an estimate of that.
10:25 am on March 19th, 2011 14
Of course you would excuse them Glans. So what about Fifty Cents? What about Donald Duck who got fired for his Japanese girlfriend joke?
1:40 pm on March 19th, 2011 15
Tom 14, I'm no fan of Rush or Glen.
What about Fifty Cent? Did he something relvant to this thread? And who is Donald Duck, aside from a Walt Disney cartoon character? Show me some informative links.
3:48 pm on March 20th, 2011 16
TOM must be an acronym for Troll On Mission. Stop feeding him. American celebrities, comedians and talking heads are not speaking for the vast majority of Americans. Our President and Secretary of State have each pledged full support. Our people are donating millions to aid organizations. American technology companies are assisting with the recovery efforts. But I know Tom doesn't want to hear that, because he is just a pathetic Troll On a Mission, for attention. TOM – you've gotten the attention you so badly needed. We hope you are feeling better. But our attention is directed to helping the people in Japan who are still in need, not wringing our hands about what a few ill mannered media whores said to get attention, not unlike yourself.
2:35 am on March 24th, 2011 17
American GI is a disgrace to the military service men and women.
Your comments are intrusive, abusive and hypocritical in every manner known to man. I ought to rip off every rank and stripe and awards given to you by the good people of the U.S. You should never ever as a former GI, if you claim to be one, entertain nor accuse nor blame nor pretend to be intrepid at the expense of being an ignorant fool. That is pure ignorance and bigotry. Something learned in history shouldn't be relearned. Nevertheless here we are in the 21st century again your actions are the very reason America is being singled out. That is no American talk. Go back to military school and have them reshape you. You are dishonorably discharged. As a fellow American you actions are a disgrace.