How former UConn QB David Pindell has built career in Japan: 'No better job than playing football' (Mike Anthony)

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Great story. He was such a good kid and great player for us. We might be 9 and 2 going into today's game or even 10 and 1 if he was our QB.

Also good for him to be able to play and live in Japan. We lived there many years ago and found the people to be very welcoming even though it was only about 25 years after the war. We never felt any animosity. In fact, they were very grateful for the way we assisted in rebuilding. We were told there was little, if any, mention of WW2 in their school books and it was treated like a time period that was lost or meant to be forgotten.

They loved Americans and the younger people closely followed every aspect of our culture (mainly music and style) even though there was no social media to join back then. Probably too structured for Americans, especially today's Americans, but
there were no harder working people and no culture more focused on doing their best for their employer or their country.

Also very strict about following rules and obeying the law. One of my friends was a dentist and one of his jobs was to provide dental care for American servicemen in the local jail. No windows, just bars on openings in the walls, even though it got down to freezing in the winter. No bed, just a concrete platform to lie on. And, if I remember right, your family had to bring you food because they didn't provide it......at least that was the way it was in their hospitals.

Also tough sentencing. If a foreigner was in a traffic accident they'd usually be considered at fault (even if they weren't) because to them if the foreigner hadn't been there the accident wouldn't have happened. Curious logic but hard to refute........