[schildkoi]

Quote: Steve .....good post. While I also agree with the basic premise of injustice, one cannot compare the feelings or mood of the county after Pearl Harbor to today's standards. Kind of like the monday morning quarterbacking regarding the use of the atom bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Any history buff familar with the battle at Iwo Jima probably realizes that the potential american loss of life from trying to unearth the japanese from the islands of Japan would have been devistating

Dan, Thanks and I agree 100%. My point was that cultural standards change from generation to generation based upon the experiences of each. My dad has taken numerous trips to China but never to Japan. He would not even have a flight that is routed through Japan to China.

I on the otherhand have no desire to go to China but would jump at chances to go to Japan....go figure!

JR,
My first exposure to Koi was through a PBS documentary in the mid 80s about a Japanese koi breeder in California. I was enthrawled. It wasn't until about 8-10 years later (1994ish) that while on business in Sacremento (and already in the hobby) that I remembered this documentary and had a recolection that the koi farm in question was somewhere in that area. I searched and found Golden State Fisheries outside of Sacremento (Flourin I think?) and began visiting there. I was a nobody to the owner until about the 5th trip (a year and a half later) that this Japanese gentleman actually started talking to me conversationally. Fred Tonai (sp?) was that same Japanses gentleman who was featured in that documentary some 10-12 years earlier that first inspired me about koi. I wonder how long Fred and his business existed prior to the mid 80s when I first saw that documentary?

Steve