I'd hate to imagine what he would have done had he seen the Japanese tourists I sighted at the Arizona Memorial. Though they tossed flowers into the waters and voiced prayers for the war dead, I know he'd have killed every one of them, had he been able to get to them.
If you don't mind my asking, would you by any chance be familiar with what he endured at the hands of Imperial Japan and would you be willing to tell us a little about it?
(considering, of course, that this is a family website)
From your description, it sounds as if he was unspeakably brutalized.
He never spoke of what he went through, what he saw, what he knew or what he may have heard of. He was my grandmothers brother, my Great-Uncle I knew he was in the South Pacific from ‘43 to ‘46, in the US Navy, was in “communications” of some sort and made it ashore much more so than the average seaman. He was so tight-lipped that even his wife knew nothing of his war experiences. I suppose it was common, and is common, that those who were there and who made it back are not the sort to complain or to blow their own horns.