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.
“...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.”
The Jap prison guards had standing orders to kill prisoners if Allied forces approached. Most didn’t because they knew that wouldn’t end well for them either. But some...
Lots of things happened in history but isn’t it more appropriate to erect statues here in remembrance of American events? It seems to me this statue would be more appropriate in the East because that’s where events took place.
I agree, but why Glendale, California? Shouldn't this statue be in Tokyo?