One of the most horrific slaughters and atrocities in human history - The Rape of Nanking - is hardly discussed.
It is almost as if it never happened.
But hey......we put Japanese in internment camps.....
I had a relative who was AT Pearl Harbor when it was attacked. Her father was in the Navy.
She told me that there was a beauty shop just outside of Pearl staffed by Japanese women. When Navy wives were in the beauty shop, the staff would ask them casually what ship their hubby was on, where it was, etc.
Right after the attack, Navy Intel searched the beauty shop. They had a short wave radio in the back room.
I’ll bet that is NOT in the history books.
Another anecdote: I know a guy in Mason, Texas whose father was a petty officer in the US Navy. He told me his Dad was on active duty in 1939 in CHINA leading an infantry company against the Japanese. This remained secret for many years until his Dad told him.
I think Roosevelt authorized such secret missions knowing that we would have to engage the Empire in the Pacific sooner or later.
I’ll bet that one is not in the history books either.
One of the most horrific slaughters and atrocities in human history - The Rape of Nanking - is hardly discussed.
It is almost as if it never happened.
But hey......we put Japanese in internment camps.....