It really did happen. The truth hurts. China is now readying for payback due to economics. The only people who are in denial are the perpetrators.
That seems like a strange statue in a strange location; are you supposed to sit next to her and comfort her over her suffering?
In any event, it is certainly not an issue for the federal gov’t.
Oh, wait ...
As an artist, a woman, and a student of WW2, I find the statue very poignant and inoffensive.
It happened. It is entirely appropriate to remember these women, and while we are at it, let us also remember the thousands of women civilians who were raped in Nanking, the 3000 that were killed in the Attack on Pearl Harbor, and the 200+ American POWS that my Dad found beheaded and abandoned in a Japanese POW Camp on a nameless, godforsaken atoll in the Pacific AFTER the surrender was signed.
I'm tired of sending history down a black hole because it becomes uncomfortable or inconvenient.
Sitting? Really?
Tony Marano = bizarre Japanese war crimes apologist, also fan of whale hunting. Was served dolphin & whale dishes when he visited Japan
“But despite .... pleas from the Japanese government”
Pretty much says it all there.
Why Glendale for the locale? I thought that city was pretty much South American and Armenian demographic these past many moons.
The petition was started by a Texas man by the name of Tony Marano. On his YouTube channel, he states, “these women were recruited and they volunteered to serve in these comfort women houses for the Japanese Imperial Army.”
Bravo Sierra!
There were likely some who “volunteered” to be prostitutes (those who were already prostitutes?); but many were captured and raped.
“The petition was started by a Texas man by the name of Tony Marano. On his YouTube channel, he states, “these women were recruited and they volunteered to serve in these comfort women houses for the Japanese Imperial Army.”
Mr Marano, an idiot, should have no problem getting a teaching position in Japan, where the military-imperial period of Japan is taught leaving out a lot of the truth of atrocities and inhumane behavoir on the part of the Japanese military.
Seems odd that a CA city would insert itself into this controversy. A statue in Seoul or Beijing would seem more appropriate.
Also odd that a TX man is concerned enough about a statue in a CA city to start a petition drive.
Tellya what, Tony. I'll use the... persuasion... on you, that the Japanese used on these women.
Betcha I can get you to "volunteer" for things you never even knew existed...
Very tasteful. I hope the city council of Glendale cares more about their Korean-American constituents than about some out-of-state misogynist goofball.
While I feel compassion for the exploitation of those women, I don't get why a statue honoring them has to be in a park in Glendale, California. Shouldn't it be in Tokyo?
Sounds like the left is trying to make normal Americans feel shame for something they had nothing to do with. Again.