[Kenny Bunkport]

You know what bothered me? -- Visiting Pearl Harbor about ten years ago, and seeing all the Japanese tourists snapping pictures of the memorials to the sunken ships and lost crews. Maybe it shouldn't bother me, because the war is now a couple of generations past, but it still did. Forgiveness is easier than forgetting. I suppose, in a sense, we should never forget.

[GretchenM]

I don't know if this would work for you, but perhaps it might make it easier to remember that visit if you could look at their picture taking as a positive thing -- if we had not come out the victor in WW2, the Japanese wouldn't be there as tourists. And then focus on how relations have changed since then; change hardly seems a strong enough word. It is as though the US and Japan turned the world upsdie down after WW2, in regard to the power and influence that have come out of the postwar rebuilding of Japan, our alliance with that nation, and her people's willingness to become an ally of the nation that beat them.