.........I was stationed in Japan from August 69 to June 71 or just 24 years after Japan surrendered
Each day I was stationed there I worked along side, joked around with, wrestled with at times and just generally became great friends with two Japanese men. Approximately 25 years before they were both on Okinawa doing their best to kill Americans.
So, your right, times do change, and its some 43 years after hostilities ceased with Vietnam.
That said, some of my Vietnam buddies will never support this.
My father was in the Battle for Okinawa.
Speaking as someone who was born after the war:
1. Thanks for your service.
2. I find it completely understandable that they hold such an opinion. It’s not like they don’t have reason for their opinion, and it’s certainly not like they didn’t pay cash for the right to have it in the first place.
My first flight instructor flew Me-110s for the Reich during the war.