Posted on 12/09/2014 1:02:27 PM PST by Kaslin
Oh my. This will be one to see.
According to our leaders and press we are more brutal in our treatment of POW’s and deserved to be brought down a peg.
It boggles the mind.
One thing that never seems to come up is the fact that those two bombs saved the lives of Tens. Of. Millions. of Japanese.
Pretty arrogant of her to judge hundreds of millions of people...
This is one of the best books I have ever read. Louie reminds me so much of my dad, also a WWII vet, who passed away the year before Louie.
After I read the book, I recommended it to an elderly friend, who was a heavy drinker and an atheist. He called me 6 months later and thanked me for the recommendation. He read the book and he said it changed his life. He found Jesus Christ again and attends church every week. He no longer drinks. His wife was in tears on the phone as she is thankful this book totally changed their lives.
Louie’s true story is so amazing it seems like a make-believe script. This man is a true American hero and should be memorialized in our history books.
Huh? Who are you talking about?
Th Japanese population would have died of starvation if the war hadn’t ended.
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I was just watching the documentary about Iwo Jima. The Japs knew that they couldn’t win. but they wanted to defend it so hard and cause so many U.S. casualties in the hope that we would negotiate a peace so we wouldn’t have to go through all of that to overtake Japan.
We lost about 6,800 dead and 25,000 casualties. Almost the entire force of 25,000 Japs died. Yes - it would have been awful on both sides if we hadn’t dropped the bombs. I’m pretty sure that we wouldn’t have negotiated a peace.
Perhaps we would have used China or the Soviets to help with the invasion???? Then Japan (what was left of it) may have ended up being Communist instead of the good friend that they are now.
It seems most Japanese believe no war crimes were committed in the Pacific-Asian theater. Total denial.
I know a man, many years my senior, who left school at 12 to work, because his family was too poor. He got a job shoveling coal and painting. He joined the Army in 1940 to get 3 meals a day.
He was wounded in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, was on Corregidor when it surrendered, and was on the Bataan Death march, and the Hell Ships. He wound up in a Manchurian coal mine for the extent of WWII.
The guy had toughness and self-reliance built in from an early age. How many 19 year olds now could survive such a situation? I don’t know - people can rise to incredible challenges, but certainly, very few would make it.
Someone put it to me this way:
Think of 15,000 people - its your typical big city basketball or hockey stadium filled 4/5 full.
Now imagine killing all those people. Repeat it the next day, and the next, and the next.
That is what Japan was doing every day of WWII to Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, and to a far lesser extent - Americans.
So ask them - how would you have stopped that?
Quite
Ruins it for me
From what I have heard even their Universities repress the history of Imperial Japan’s atrocities during the war.
I read “Unbroken”. It’s a wonderful story. I’m so glad you posted this!
The book was great and I can’t wait for the movie. However, for mostly PC reasons you can be assured that the movie will not portray the Japanese as harshly as they were in reality.
My dad was a 11th AB paratrooper in the Philippines in WWII.
Part of his regiment rescued over 2100 mostly American civilians from a Japanese prison camp called Los Banos.
Among the prisoners were Jerry and Margaret Sams. My folks met them at an Airborne reunion in the early 80s and discovered they resided w/in 5 miles of each other in rural CA. They became close friends. Margaret wrote a fantastic book called Forbidden Family about meeting Jerry in the prison camp and the hell they endured under the Japanese.
Rumor has it that Louies conversion to Christianity is being left out of the movie.
It premiered last month in Aus.
Not sure if there is info about that online or not.
Thanks for bringing it up. It is the truth. I am glad this gentleman found Christ.
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