In World War Two, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito was musing about the possibility of invading the United States in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Admiral Isoroku Yamamato, the greatest Japanese military leader of the time, and a man who had gone to college in the USA, told the Emperor, “You can never invade the United States successfully. There would be a rifle aimed at our soldiers from behind every blade of grass in the country.” The legendary Yamamato knew, that an armed populace will always fight to remain free.
