I simply do not understand how any of the Vets can forgive them. I would never own a Japanese made car.
I have been to Asia, even lived there a while.
I have been to Europe and lived there awhile as well.
Whether because of the war, or because of their reflections on the defeat from the war, the people of the current generations living in Japan and Germany today are not the people of Japan and Germany from WWII.
It may be hard for victims to forget or even forgive, but I do believe the sins of the father cannot be placed on the son and the nations, and national psyche, of both Japan and Germany today are not the nations we went to war against.
And, in full disclosure, I own a Toyota.
Or why us suthners would buy anything from those nasty oppressive damn yankees.
"I simply do not understand how any of the Vets can forgive them. I would never own a Japanese made car."
My dad was on Okinawa and came back with an abiding hatred of anything Japanese. It wasn't until I was grown that he softened up somewhat and didn't curse the television during war movies.
My husband's WWII vet uncle was vehemently anti-Japanese until the birth of his 1/2 Japanese great-grandson whom he adores; + the child's daddy is (God willing) very close to accepting the Lord because of the witness of the awesome, loving Christian family he married into.
I used to think that way until my Chevy Vega blew an engine for the third and last time.
"I simply do not understand how any of the Vets can forgive them. I would never own a Japanese made car."
I too will never own one of those stinking things. When they have displaced our companies and Americans bow to them for their jobs at US Jap car factories, who will it be said has won in the long run.
I'm a former Marine, drive a Mercedes with Toyo (Japanese) tires. Great car ... great tires. :o)
I would never own a Japanese car"
I have an uncle who feels exactly like you do and whose plane was shot down in the Pacific.
Yet he has owned several Mercedes during his life which astounded me since the Germans matched the Japanese for brutality and mercilessness during the war.
Its OK to make a statement but he should have been consistent.
Our Peace Studies program faculty and friends had a table at the farmer's market one year quibbling about the US and the Atomic Bomb and how horrible it was to bomb the cities (It was, but it was a necessary evil). My 2nd cousin, who was captured and hurt by the Japanese gave them an earful. He was NOT a happy camper. It's great for all these peace loving draft dodgers to protest but not for our American heroes who actually fought and died or were maimed in that war.