Vengeance: Hatred and Honor

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After writing the original manuscript and passing it out to various friends and family for their opinions, some things came to my attention that I thought I needed to address.

The first is that the main character uses some very harsh language in describing the Japanese. You must keep in mind that this story takes place during World War II, and that kind of talk was to be expected at the time. This is not a book about battleships or the war; it is a book about hatred. Without the hatred, I simply would not have much of a story.

If this bothers you, I urge you to consider that in the navy in those days, the word “Nip,” for example, would have been surrounded by language that would have made a prostitute blush. It would have also been preceded and followed by large, heavy projectiles loaded with high explosives that would have caused a most painful and gruesome death should any of them hit you or explode near you.

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