I think that this won't be an issue but German media described 9/11 as a
Kamikaze attack, where English-speakers associate kamikaze with a
particular theater of war.



On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:

> The Signpost FTW. If I may make a suggestion: can you try to schedule
> Signpost reposts around dates that are thematically similar to the subject
> of the blog, like Veterans Day or Memorial Day?
>
> Pine
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Michael Guss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Ed! These LGTM. Of course, with Buffer we can schedule twitter,
>> fb, g+ for the next week.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Ed Erhart <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We've just published "WWII veteran, kamikaze survivor honors shipmates
>>> through Wikipedia articles" to the blog:
>>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/04/wwii-veteran-wikipedia/
>>>
>>> Proposed social media messages follow:
>>>
>>>
>>> *Facebook/Google+:*
>>>
>>>    - "On deck, there was an inferno of fire and explosions ... Some of
>>>    us made our way through the debris to the fantail and took turns going 
>>> over
>>>    the side into the waters of Ormac Bay; I lost my loosely tied shoes." 
>>> *<--
>>>    love the last part; isn't it strange what details you remember about
>>>    traumatic experiences?*
>>>    - "On deck, there was an inferno of fire and explosions; the ship’s
>>>    superstructure had been reduced to rubble, and the forward magazine was
>>>    exploding."
>>>    - At 18, he survived a Japanese kamikaze strike. At 90, he writes
>>>    for Wikipedia.
>>>    - Three years to the day after Pearl Harbor, the kamikaze struck.
>>>
>>>
>>> *Twitter:**Now that we have Buffer, can we schedule a bunch of posts
>>> for Twitter over the next week?*
>>>
>>>    - #WWII @USNavy veteran, #kamikaze survivor wrote the article on his
>>>    old ship:
>>>    - Life in the @USNavy: “You might chip paint, do some painting,
>>>    clean burners and floor plates ...":
>>>    - After the #kamikaze, "there was an inferno of fire and explosions
>>>    ...":
>>>    - Meet the #WWII @USNavy vet who wrote the @Wikipedia article on his
>>>    own ship:
>>>    - Three years to the day after Pearl Harbor, the kamikaze struck.
>>>    @NavyHistoryNews
>>>       - *That handle is for the US Navy's history division. Maybe
>>>       they'll retweet? Should we message them to ask for a retweet? What's 
>>> the
>>>       etiquette here?*
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ed Erhart
>>> Editorial Associate
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>>
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>>
>>
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