Have been unlucky enough to have had short layovers in Japan. Regardless of the circumstance, I still see any Japanese as merciless torturers of those unable to defend themselves. Their brutality and lack of any care for non-Japanese is genetic. No payback will ever be enough.
Today’s “progressives” want to condemn Harry Truman for
using the atom bomb. (He was quoted as saying that he
made the decision to drop the bomb; went to sleep that
night and slept well.) - My father was already a
hardened combat veteran of N. Africa, Italy & Germany.
As such, he would have had to go on to Japan and
fight them on their own shores. - I wasn’t yet born, not
until 1946. I do not second guess Truman for shouldering
that responsibility and making that call. If he had not,
thousands more of both our troops and Japanese would have
died in an invasion of Japan. - Believe me, the
American troops who were on their way over there were
relieved it was over.
You're like my father. He served in China in WW2.
He hated the Japanese until the day he died in 1998.