That's pretty much what I think and why I posted the article but I also know that any article of this sort on FR will bring out those that think otherwise.
In fact, there was a documentary a few years ago called “Return to Iowa Jima.” They took some marines back to Iwo to meet some Japanese soldiers the fought on the island. Some of the Marines said they didn’t want to meet the Japanese veterans because they were still bitter. At the end of the show virtually all the marines had changed their mind. Once they talked to the Japanese veterans they realized they all shared a lot of the same memories. The Japanese veterans had the same experience meeting their former enemy.