The Japanese were a cruel, a barbaric enemy. Whether you were to be a prisoner or die was problematic, you lived or dies on the whim of a sadistic Japanese soldier. Prisoners were tortured for no reason, only to satisfy the evil desires of the Japanese. The Americans were just the opposite.
After the war it is the American who rebuilt the nation of Japan and put them in place prominence in Asia. Japan as a nation should worship the USA for giving them all they have.
I feel better now with that off my chest, thank you!!!
I was stationed in South Korea in 1972. I liked to meet with normal people and chat when I had a chance. In one conversation with an older man that had lived through the Japanese occupation we discussed the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. His one question to me was: “Why did you stop at two?” Guess it’s all in your perspective Mr. Obama.
My uncle saw the barbarity that the Japanese dealt upon the people of the Philippines when he was in the Army. He had nothing but visceral hatred toward them until the day he died.
My father was on YMS-389 headed to Tokyo Bay for minesweeping duties when they dropped the bomb. Millions of us wouldn’t be here if they weren’t nuked.
Japan had Douglas MacArthur, we got Eisenhower.
Nearly 50 years ago some local station in Missouri ran a ten or twelve part series with Truman, he really did not like MacArthur.