[coldflamingo]

I have an opinion on this topic, But I think it might be somewhat biased as my father was a civilian laborer on Wake Island, who was captured by the Japanese after they took the Island on December 24th 1941, they shipped the majority of the over 1500 civilian prisoners to POW Camps in Japan and China and kept 98 civilians to work on building up the Wake Island Defenses, when the work was completed in 1943, the Commander had the 98 men marched to a common grave site and shot them all... My thought is the bomb was an appropriate training aid for the military complex, I was 9 years old at the time, my mother was left with 5 kids to raise by herself.. SFC Pratt Airborne Retired.

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I’ve read about the heroic fight the men on Wake put up - the real shame is that relief forces were on the way and then got recalled. I’m very sorry that your experience with this is so personal.