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Kamikaze

Kamikaze means "divine wind."
Japan was losing World War II.
To die was better in the end,
Than shame from surrender would do.
Emperor Hirohito willed
Pilots fly planes at ships of foe.
Suicide missions once fulfilled
Might mean victory winds would blow.
Pilots flew for the rising sun,
Dropping flowers before their doom,
Before their sacrifice was done.
On Japan, those flowers still bloom.

Kamikaze failed its hoped for.
Divine winds never blow with war.