Yep, Matt. And all very well depicted in one of my favorite WWII movies..."Go For Broke"(1951).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYl2hK_v7wg

(...btw, growing up in Gardena CA, at the time in the 1960s when many Japanese-Americans lived there, a few of my classmates' fathers were members of the 442nd)

Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)