[Roadsters] Rising Sun opinions

[Gary McCormick]

My dad spent 2-1/2 years or so in North Africa and Italy with the 1st Armored Division (Old Ironsides), being shot at by the Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe, and when I was in high school (closer to the end of WWII than we are now to the end of the Vietnam War...) he made me get rid of my "surfer's cross" - a St Christopher medal set in a Maltese cross.

He mellowed, though - the last vehicle he bought before he died was a VW Camper Van; and you could have knocked me over with a feather.

Hard to understand, maybe, for those of us who didn't live through it - but having grown up with someone who did, I respect their feelings on the matter.

Gary McCormick
San Jose, CA

--- On Tue, 2/3/09, E Scanlon <escanlon at wa-net.com> wrote:
From: E Scanlon <escanlon at wa-net.com>
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Rising Sun opinions
To: "'Datsun Roadster List'" <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 10:49 AM

While the design of the Rising Sun may appeal to some, it harbors some of the
same sentiment as the Swastika to others.  Heck, even the "Iron Cross"
or Maltese Cross wheels on the Z's in later years caused some to remove them
just because of the association with WWI Germany.

Apologies to anyone that may take offense to this, as that is not my intent.

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