To display their names at the USS Arizona Memorial is an outrage.
The nature of the attack is the nature of the attack and it will BE the nature of the attack for time immemorial
My 5th grade teacher in Chino, California and a friend of my family in Iowa were both “participants” of the Bataan Death March and my father fought in numerous battles, including Okinawa. If they were alive today, I’ll bet their first priority would be assuaging the grieving families of these Imperial Navy sailors. Top of their list.
Even the Japanese on 12/7/41 had boots on the ground.
“Martinez says there’s a proposal to display the names in an exhibit at the USS Arizona Memorial visitor’s center. He said this “will bring total closure to the casualty list that actually exists right here on our grounds.”
Wow...
Agreed. They and a whole lot more japs finally got what they deserved but not enough.
We try to let it go into the past but the revisionists keep digging it up
I think about this when I see an old western, we modern Americans will never know what it is like to just be able to bury a dead person where we find them, in such a matter of fact way.
While we’re at why not hunt for the charred remains of Hitler and his floozy?
Only further example of the real estate holdings and power of the Japanese in HI. We have not done this with Germans who are allies... why would we with Japanese. Both countries understand that their historical figures play no part in our current relations except that it should remind them of what would happen to them, if they did it again.
It is some whitewash liberal crap, a product of the little twerps and academes (and queers) in the National Park Service which controls the memorial, that would put a plaque up at the Arizona to the attackers OF the Arizona. One idiotic idea. Here’s a question— is there ANY plaque put up by the Japanese in honor to the thousands they KILLED on Bataan Death March or in countless island POW camps (Aussies beheaded, forced slave labor) or to the European internees (jap word for it) in Shanghai or Nanking? Answer: NO. But there are hundreds of memorials from different nations to Americans who gave their lives to defeat Imperial Japan.
Someone needs to make whoever is proposing this aware that this was an attack by the japanese— undeclared war. The ones who died in it are NOT to be honored with the sacred dead of OUR US personnel, in the place where Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd (Arizona was his flagship)was blown to bits and his US Naval Academy ring is now fused to a bulkhead from the heat of the blast that day. Hell, no.
Confucius say man who dig up war explode.
There is still such a thing a forgiveness. I am a native Arizonan. I can forgive a former enemy. And I can withstand the criticism of those who cannot forgive.
Pearl Harbor was a “limited strike”.
“And I can be honest with you, at a given point in our earlier history, we didn’t care, because of the nature of the attack.”
And still don’t.