My dad served on a B17 crew in England, but would never even consider buying anything Japanese. He took a hard look at a VW once, but wasn’t very happy when I bought a Mitsubishi Colt in 1981. It was the only non-American car I have ever owned and it was a d**m good one, went 250,000 miles with no mechanical problems. Other than that, like my dad, I have alway been a GM man.
I completely understand your Dad's sentiments....they were and are shared by millions the world over for entirely valid and justifiable reasons. Your choices are also easy to understand, particularly in the context of the modern world economy where so many "Japanese" cars are actually built in America by American workers. If there is a car that would provide the same level of safety as the bigger American cars but it has a "Japanese" nameplate, I might consider it, but it's true, I tend to have a natural bias toward the 'traditionally American' names and I don't expect to change :-)