70% of Americans support Arizona, do you think Obama is committing political suicide with his actions?

Trump is no kamikaze pilot. I have a great deal of respect for kamikaze pilots. Trump?

Not so much. Kamikaze pilots were often university students, motivated by obligation and gratitude to family and country. They prepared by holding ceremonials, writing farewell poems, and receiving a "thousand stitch belt" — cloth into which 1,000 women had sewn one stitch as a symbolic uniting with the pilot.

Then, in planes wrapped around 550 pound bombs, they would fly off to die. The most effective use of kamikazes was in the battle for Okinawa. Up to 300 aircraft at a time dove at the Allied fleet.

Just the anticipation of kamikaze attacks drove some American sailors insane. The destroyer Laffey was attacked by 20 planes at once. Her gunners got nine kamikazes, but six others severely damaged the ship.

As on the similarly damaged U.S.S. Franklin, courage, and intensive training in firefighting, kept the Laffey afloat. By war's end, kamikazes had sunk or damaged more than 300 U.S. ships, with 15,000 casualties. Several thousand kamikaze planes had been set aside for the invasion of the Japanese mainland that never came.

Ironically, the kamikaze — and the sacrificial philosophy behind them — were one of the reasons President Truman decided to drop the atomic bombs.