“...Japanese leader Abe won’t apologize ...”
Nor should he. Neither he nor his administration had anything to do with it. The people who started that war, planned and plotted and carried out the attack are long dead. Yamamoto, who planned it, was ambushed in the skies over Bouganville and shot down in a very PERSONAL hit.
They’ve become an Ally over the decades. What’s done is done.
And I say this as someone who’s uncles were in the Pacific fighting them; my father lost a 22 year old cousin on Iwo Jima, and came very close to losing his older brother on Okinawa.
If anything, I’d like to see him say a prayer for the dead, and a prayer for peace so that modern day insane assh*les who’d like to emulate Tojo, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc., NEVER get the opportunity to start another war like that Hell on Earth.
Let the Dead rest in Peace. They paid for our today by giving up their tomorrows back in 1941-1945.
Thank you.
well said