For me, one of the most poignant passages of the book "Flags of Our Fathers" is the part where James Bradley talks about being in college, studying in Japan, and being "educated" about the "real" causes of WWII...American cultural insensitivity and agression against a Japan just trying to earn a living.
The way his father, who had fought on Iwo Jima, just looked at him, nodded his head, but didn't say anything. After all he went through, to hear that coming out of the mouth of his son must have been tough. Hmm. Not much different than what is taught to students today in some places.
It is criminal what is taught as history today.
That brings up another forgotten fact about internment of Japanese and some Germans. Many Japanese American and German American families had sons fighting for the enemy.
While my grandfather fought in Europe, his father (my great grandfather) was denied a job in any war industry due to the fact that he was a German immigrant.
I know someone who survived the Bataan death march and spent the rest of the war in a Japanese prison camp. He doesn't think much of Douglas MacArthur.