Check out these two airplanes in a line called "Forces of Valor"- on the left, an American Curtiss P-40 and on the right a Japanese Mitsubishi Zero. Both planes had "Pearl Harbor" listed under their name designations on the top of the package (not visible).

The most obvious thing, of course, is that the plane on the right is Japanese. Is it some kind of sign of peace between two countries when the word "valor" can be attached to the weapons from war of opposing nations and sold as toys?

The less obvious thing is that the American plane was the same one used by the Flying Tigers, a volunteer group serving in China alongside the British RAF with FDR's and Churchill's blessings before the US was officially war with Japan. Basically, these "volunteers" were akin to Blackwater mercenaries of today- former military who found the private sector warcraft pays quite a bit more than the official armed services. While this particular P-40 doesn't bear the recognizable sharkmouth markings of that airwing, I found the adjacency of the two planes (along with Messerschmitts and others) to effect some thought about how a us-versus-them mentality doesn't make a lot of sense even in war.