"Amen, however, the house cleaning the really needs to be done is restitution to surviving POWs and spouses for using the POWs as slave labor. My wife's uncle survived the coal mines in Japan. He never talked about it and I found out about his past (Bataan Death March, Hell Ships, Japanese coal mines) after he passed on in 2003. "
I read most everything on WWII I can and have since childhood, my dad was on the Marblehead and spent 39 to 45 almost entirely in the Pacific.
Getting justice like you are talking about could be gotten from the Germans but not from anyone else, with the Japanese, Soviets, North Vietnamese and hopefully in the future the North Koreans, the best we can hope for (and will request) is a gesture bold enough to give us something to work with, (any politician that pushes for more from these groups will be attacked by the media)
If you go back and read the posts on this thread, you'll notice something very reserved about everyones responses, it's because they know about men like your wife's uncle and millions more in places like China and Korea.
"Aussie Dasher said about all that needs to be said."
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I agree with you about the reserved nature of the comments and I feel that way as well. We must never, ever forget the sacrifices made by so many for what we have today. My hat is off, especially today, to your father's duty as well as my wife's late uncle and all the other men and women who have or currently are defending our freedom and way of life.