Posted on 08/12/2006 4:01:36 PM PDT by Graybeard58
"Someday," said Lima, "this foolish holiday's name will be changed."
She can tell it to this guy.
"People need the holiday to remember the sacrifices veterans made during the war, said James Brennan. He survived the 1942 Bataan Death March in which Japanese soldiers tortured and killed thousands of American and Filipino prisoners of war."
If I was him, I'd tell her to go to hell.
How about we call it emperor's ass kicking day.
The hour and a half VJ day parade in Moosup, CT goes right by me house on rte14 every year. Starts at Riverview Rest. and ends at the American Legion (Who puts it all together)
Get welled up a couple times during it.
Tomorrow's the day!
Or "The putz who would be god" day.
Enjoy it before the PC Goons gut it
I remember the TV show "McCale's Navy", they always called them "nips". Not PC today, so I guess there will be no re-runs.
The victory over Japan was the end of the war. The victory over Germany was not.
all sarcasm aside, and leaving aside as well the stupidity of those who are so anxious to change the name ... Japan's losing that war to the US was the best thing that ever happened to that country! Same with Germany.
Clinton wanted to change the name......BJ Day!!!
FGS.. what's next from the sensitivity pc wackos.. Independence Day?
Yes. These critics are clueless beyond belief.
I sorta thought the Brits had accepted the fact that the United States doesn't belong to them any longer. We're close friends, but that doesn't eliminate the Independence Day meaning.
I don't hate the Japanese, even though I lost a cousin in the Bataan death march. I don't hate the Japanese, because they have become our allies and friends.
But I was a Combat Aircrewman/Aviation Ordnanceman in the latter part of WWII, and I confess to hating the people on the other side who acted in what I thought were crazy, inhuman ways. For example, the kamikazis were generally scared young men who had been impressed into suicide missions in various types of planes, mostly obsolescent.
But somebody ordered those missions. But at that time, nobody was making the fine distinction that it was only the leaders who were doing this. The kamakazis came close to turning the tide at Okinawa.
Somebody ordered the Bataan death march. That was an cruel, inhuman thing to do. But nobody at that time was making a fine distinction that it was only the leaders who were doing this.
Repeat: I don't hate the Japanese of today who are our friends and allies. But I hated the Japs in WWII.
That may not make sense, but it's just the way I feel.
Do we have to continue to re-write our history just because someone complains? I'm getting sick and tired of this.
It does make sense, I feel pretty much that way about the Vietnamese.
Don't know CindyDawg do you?
We had a 4th generation Japanese plaster forman that spent the entire WW2 in the Pacific as an a
American Army inteligence officer and hated the Japs!
He did have 2 armed guards with him at all times to keep our guys from killing him though!
While on holiday in the early 70's, my father was attacked in Japan on a hillside, by an Japanese veteran. Tour guides pulled him off while Dad stood there.
Dad had mentioned he was a Marine.
Amen to that.
The other day I passed by a guy holding a sign that said "Remember Nagasaki".
I did.
Probably not in the manner that he wanted me to though!
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