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...June 14, 1944, Taruo Kawacuchi, one of the defenders of Saipan, wrote in his diary: "The enemy has landed and the time has come at last. An impressive ceremony for our country was carried out at the Saipan Shrine...
With Meiktila gone, Mandalay had lost military importance, but the Japs fought last week as though it were a Shinto shrine. In 130-degree heat, in swirls of white dust, dashing, diminutive (5 ft. 4 in.) General Thomas Wynford Rees led his turbaned Punjabis into the city from the north. From the west came another Allied force. Mandalay's defenders were trapped...
...honoring Guru (Teacher) Govind Singh and his two martyr sons, by breaking ground for a shrine for them. The story goes that Guru's sons were captured by the Moslems (circa 1700) and held as hostages until their father should renounce his faith. When he refused, the Moslems built a tomb over the two boys, 7 and 9, and buried them alive...
Walking in his socks while his" mustachios curled magnificently skyward, the Maharaja carried a takri (basket) of earth from the site of the shrine. While thousands of his subjects chanted: "Sat Sri Akal!" ("Truth is eternal!"), the Prince bore his burden on his turbaned head in token of his total humility...
...muezzins nearly fell out of their minarets. In mosques and bazaars, hadjis (pilgrims who have gazed upon Mecca's sacred shrine, the Kaaba) nearly tugged out their Prophetlike beards. For is it not written in the Koran: "It is for women to act as their husbands act towards them. ... Yet are the men a step above them?" But 100 women, representing seven Middle Eastern countries, had demanded equal rights for Arab women...