Posted on 05/31/2008 10:22:53 AM PDT by Matthew James
The searchers dug for days, ignoring blisters and sore muscles to look for remains of Japanese soldiers buried in mass graves on the Aleutian island of Attu following one of the bloodiest battles of World War II.
But old bullets and bits of barbed wire were all that emerged from beneath the grassy tundra - until the end of the two-week mission by U.S. and Japanese representatives who traveled to the remote resting place of nearly 2,500 soldiers. On May 23, searchers struck their shovels on decaying wood boxes and found the well-preserved bones of two Japanese soldiers likely buried by their comrades during the 1943 Battle of Attu.
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Many Americans want the remains of our soldiers returned to our families in America.
God speed these former enemy Japanese soldiers home to their families who, today, are our friends.
Burying the dead is a corporal work of mercy as is ransoming the captive.
Maybe - but then again the Japanese army in WWII was basically a uniformed murder and torture cult. Find the remains and ship ‘em home. But no flags, speeches, salutes etc...and least not on U.S. soil
I could not agree more with your sentiments.
Japanese government searches for soldiers' remains
What the hell is a "Japanes"?
I overlook, with purpose, those desires to condemn these generations past men as with death Justice has dealt them. Now, there souls, with all souls, require Requiem.
I heard the man was shot while defending himself and the woman was sent back to japan and interned for the duration of the war. This information was from Brian Garfield’s book on the Aleutians campaign.
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Not much humor came out of it (it was a really nasty business), but I liked the story about the bureaucrat or politician who went to the Aleutians just before Pearl Harbor to warn the native people about what was coming. He told an assembly that there might be an attack on the United States. A hand went up. Someone asked: "What's the United States?"
The Aleutians were definitely the middle of nowhere then.
The man committed suicide before the Japanese reached the village. His wife tried the same, but failed, and was captured with the rest of the villagers. They were sent to Hokkaido for the duration of the war, and later returned to California. The government decided that it was too costly to reestablish Attu village, and I believe the survivors settled somewhere in California.
She made it back but a few Aleuts she was interned with didn’t.
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