Revenge is complete for Japan
On Dec. 7, 1941, the United States of America was attacked by the Japanese military. America was caught flat-footed; we were way behind in materials, men, training, logistics, and the plain art of fighting a war. After Pearl Harbor was bombed, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered Auto manufacturers to stop producing cars for domestic use. The last cars rolled off the assembly lines in early 1942 as automakers converted their factories to make war products such as ambulances, tanks, trucks, jeeps bombers, guns, engines and ammunition. Detroit ranked No. 1 in the nation in war production. The Detroit metropolitan area produced 70 percent of Michigan's total output. Automakers dominated war production.
Chrysler had a long way to go, and a short time to get there. Under the vision of Walter P. Chrysler, and Walter Reuther, President of UAW, Chrysler went into the war making business. Not one item that the United States government called upon Chrysler Corporation and the UAW to develop, manufacture, or even invent, got away. All projects were completed way under cost, with unparalleled quality, built with the understated pride.
Michigan was dubbed the "Arsenal of Democracy" by President Roosevelt.
The Big Three Automakers and their suppliers produced $30 billion worth of military equipment from 1942 to 1945. Hundreds of thousands of UAW members that included your aunts, great aunts, moms and grand moms worked in plants (alongside of men) building bombers, tanks, and trucks at a great sacrifice to their family. They were known as Rosie the Riveters. Their mission: to defeat the Japanese who attacked us with their kamikaze pilots at Pearl Harbor.
Yet today, the majority of Americans are helping the Japanese defeat the very Autoworkers and UAW Union that stood in the gap for America and help them defeat the Japanese who attacked us without provocation. You unmercifully attack union people as no good and useless. Even though it was the union people of the Big Three that helped defeat the Japanese Army.
Even though thousands of union people fought and died in the wars since World War II/
Today, thousands of union people are fighting and putting their lives on the line in Iraq, for Americans like you and I as I write this letter.
Yet, many Americans are buying Japanese cars at record pace. How many Japanese do you see driving American cars? Not many. Japanese people are loyal to their nation and to their culture, unlike many Americans. This Marine and Vietnam Veteran will not dishonor those soldiers that fought or died at the hands of the Japanese during World War II by helping the Japanese destroy the very companies and people who supported and helped our soldiers to defeat the Japanese in World War II.
In conclusion, to every American who is supporting the American car companies and their employees by buying their products, I want to say thank you. Thank you for supporting us, our families, our communities and those who have benefited in our communities by auto workers spending their paychecks at local businesses supporting their communities and neighbors.
To you Americans who have bought Japanese, you should be ashamed of yourself, for the hundreds of thousands of job losses (union and non-union
jobs) at the Big Three. You should be ashamed of yourself for the hundreds of thousands of job losses in our communities. You have affected waitresses, bank tellers, retail employees, small businesses (going bankrupt), communities and schools that have had to cut back in essential services, because of the loss of tax revenue, created by the loss of over 400,000 jobs in the Big Three and thousands of jobs by their suppliers.
You should be ashamed of yourselves for all the hardships you have brought to blue collar families (union and non-union). You should be ashamed of yourself for helping the Japanese defeat the Big Three. The war is over, the Japanese smell victory over the Big Three Automakers, that brought defeat to them in World War II. Revenge is complete for Japan. One last thought, how many Japanese citizens are fighting and dying for you in Iraq today?
Jerry Witt Detroit,Mi
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