[jaydubya2]

Much is said about the internment of Japanese civlians in the US during WW2, but the treatment of civilian Americans in the Philippine interment camps were brutal. It’s not talked about much today.

[dfwgator]

Only America does bad things in today’s history books.

[Mase]

The Battan Death March should be mandatory curriculum in Japan, and here, as should what happened in Nanking and the many POW camps. My young teen son read Unbroken this summer and was shocked by the inhumanity of the Japanese. I was going to give him the book on Nanking to read as a follow up, but decided that can come later. He's reading King Rat instead.

WWII is hardly spoken of in our schools today and it's been ignored for the most part in Japan. But they all manage to learn about the US internment of Japanese and Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I despise public education.

[silverleaf]

Thats because the people who actually suffered and the people who knew them are mostly dead now. My Dads best friend survived Bataan Death March and my Mom who just died at 92 would never own a Japanese car or appliance in her life.