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You're welcome. You know the Admiral lived a decade in the United States as a Naval Attache to the Japanese counsel General? He attended Harvard and went cross country with friends from the U.S. Naval Accadamy.

He was regarded as a fine poker player and performed stunts like standing on his head over a chair while totally drunk. He loved to gamble constantly, wagering street races, track meets and bar brawls.

Of course the Admiral was missing a few fingers, he lost them at the Battle of Tsushima Strait during the Ruso/japanese war.

He once responded to a fellow officer who claimed Japan could easily over run America because her ethnic diversity would cause more infighting. He said he passed by a car that had broken down on the side of a road. There was a black family in the car and the man had no spare nor money to get one. A white man stopped to fix the man's tire and a chinese man living near by offered the family water and food. "Be carefull how you insult your adversary my friend, Americans may look chaotic because they lack the advantage of our one-race people but if the situation demands? They will be demons in battle.

The Yamamoto family still lived in the same house in Kamakura and in 1986 while I was based on the USS Midway I had the crazy idea of simply knocking on their door and asking if I could take pictures. Insted one of his Grandson's allowed me inside and let me hold one of his service swords, which was a great treat. Yamamoto was never an enemy of America but he was a dedicated officer of the Imperial Navy and though there were rumors he wanted to resign over the planning for Pearl Harbor, honor and duty to the people held him to his service till death.

You couldn't ask for a more divoted servant in uniform than that man.