Posted on 11/03/2007 6:56:30 PM PDT by Stoat
“It started at her school when her 8th grade teacher asked the class if they thought it was right that we dropped the atomic bombs on Japan and my daughter said, “Yes. They started the war.” At which point the teacher (of Japanese descent) told her how terrible the bomb was.”
Dejavu! My kid answered close to the same thing to nearly the same question from his Japanese language teacher in the 4th grade. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/857912/posts?page=11#11
“The Japs used anthrax and other types of germ warfare in China and other countries. Some of the cultures they released are still active.”
IIRC, one of those is a particularly nasty strain of cholera that is now indigenous to an area of N.E. China.
My dads papers say he served New Guinea and the Philippine Island of Luzon. He was in Co. C of the 760th Field Artillery Battalion. If if wasn’t for ‘the bomb’, we probably wouldn’t be here today, Inyo.
My dad passed away in 2000. I wonder what he would say if he knew that my son - his grandson - is in the navy stationed in Japan today!
Sorry, I worded poorly. It “Had been intended for Germany, and was in the European theater. Truman ordered it to the Pacific, as it was no longer needed in Germany, and Japan still needed more prodding.”
“If I knew God I’d be Him.” But as I believe I’m responsible for my own soul, I believe there’ll be a reckoning for theirs as well, and at this late date, given the allied sense of our two peoples, I’d just as soon leave it in His hands.
On the monument of war dead in my hometown in New Zealand is the name of a soldier who was beheaded on what was called Devil’s Island...
It was a well known fact that the Japanese were much worse than the German Nazis, and the chances of coming home alive from Europe were better than an assignment to the Pacific...
Everything of a scholarly nature that I've read about WW2 supports what you say.
(I don't consider Leftist hysteria about 'the evil Americans' and their 'horrible crime of dropping the atomic bomb' to be "scholarly" in any way....merely the uniformed spineless caterwauling of children in the bodies of adults)
Everyone hopes they are done with counting coup and taking vengence.
Let’s never ever forget what ruthless, cruel animals the JAPS were.
That’s a leftwing party (counterpart to the Democrats and Commies) that controls one part of the Diet ~ not the Japanese as a whole.
I believe that your Father's perspectives are shared by all who either served in WW2 or who have studied it honestly. Such sentiments are typically not shared by those who hate America and use that vitriolic bile as a foundation for their ideological agenda.
Thank God for your Father and for all like him.
And people still can’t understand why the two Japanese cities were nuked.
Wow! Small world. My son, my father's grandson, is also in the Navy stationed in Japan aboard the USS Kittyhawk! My father passed away in 1988.
“Maybe the democrats in Congress could pass a resolution or something.”
To do what? Denounce Mark Felton’s book?
After the war sweetness and light prevailed and the US and the USSR faced off with 50 megaton nukes.
I don't think I phrased that right. Instead, let's try this, A board of aeons, all enlightened philosopher kings, took over and everything was made right ~ peace prevailed ~ the blind saw, the lame walked ~
Maybe I should try that again ~ how about it got worse and children were taught to cower in terror over fear of being blinded by atom bombs going off in their cities ~ all over the world.
Ain't much better today.
Mrs. Chang was working on another book, this time detailing the horrors of the Battan Death March, when she suffered a nervous breakdown, likely attributed to the horrific materials she was dealing with on a daily basis, and committed suicide in November, 2004.
Me, too. In fact, the Japanese leader of the Pearl Harbor attack later converted to Christianity due to a former American POW and Doolittle Raider, Jacob Daniel DeShazer. I found out about him through a tribute to him on television. Forgiveness was his inspiration and no one who reads about his own change of heart during his captivity can say he didn't practice what he preached.
It serves no one but the Devil to nurture hate and anger, as hard as it is to not feel both when learning of such cruelty.
I haven’t found any info on routine German Navy atrocities. Do you have any info?
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