Posted on 09/02/2020 4:52:26 AM PDT by Java4Jay
Today, September 2, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the day Imperial Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
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Communism was a threat in Japan, through their trade unions and the communist party. But the companies co-opted the trade unions and Japan is always suspicious of outsiders.
Also, they wanted to copy a winner, so they copied the US after WW II. Deming wasn’t listened to in the US, but he was highly esteemed in Japan. Toyota Production System? Deming’s ideas adapted by the Japanese.
Another reason why the bomb was a good thing, kept the Soviets out of Japan, save for Sakhalin Island.
Hard Times make Good Men
Good Men make Good Times
Good Times make Weak Men
Weak Men make Hard Times
Some of those ships were the battleships sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor. My dad was on USS West Virginia, anchored in Tokyo Bay when Dai Nippon threw in the towel.
Yet today Japan is a stable,decent,civilized country and Germany is *still* trying to destroy Europe.
A wonderful day to silently celebrate. Those that gave their lives in that war should forever be held in the highest regard.
Unfortunately, today’s youth have been robbed of the importance of this day in their current schooling.
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Crap, I had a Biden moment, there.
To the victor goes the spoils.
106+ .... Just a continuation of the previous War with a slight pause in the action...
A very good explanation!
I guess what PO’d me the most, was one of these fellows was bragging about how he kept his son in college for years and years while the Vietnam War was going on. He said it to my dad, right in front of me just after I got back from Vietnam. His kid was so over educated he became a university professor.
My theory about the leftist professors is that they are basically the same as the people I knew. They are all draft dodgers that evolved into die hard America hating leftist.
WWII planes will be doing a flyover in Michigan today.
Like 9/11, so many have forgotten - and here we are in today's insanity
I want to echo Tomkat's comment.
How much longer will it be before WW2 remembrances are declared racist?
It’s getting to the point where when they teach WWII, the main points are:
-The Soviet Union defeated Hitler Single-Handedly
-Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were War Atrocities
-The Japanese were only trying to eradicate Western Colonialism from Asia
Conveniently forgetting the Katyn Forest, the Warsaw Ghetto hands-off and the Rape of Nanking...
Oh, and FDR knew about the Holocaust, and did nothing.
As a young child, my mother lived in Honolulu. The family was there on December 7, 1941, she remembers the Japanese planes flying over her house. She watched World War 2 start.
75 years ago, my BFF's dad was a young sailor aboard the USS Missouri, he watched WW2 end.
Sobering to think now that an 18 year-old at that time, would now be 99 years old. Not many WWII vets left.
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