[rond]

The slop that the Japanese were ready to surrender is a pile of steaming Bravo Sierra.

So, I guess Eisenhower is full of BS, and knew nothing about the war?

You say I must know nothing about the Japanese people. Odd, that. My mother was one of those allegedly "being organised into cadres which were to be armned (sic) with bamboo spears." She was 18 when the war ended. Like all of her peers, she was mightily sick of war, and not inclined to sharpen any bamboo.

As for your "dogs" comment, I believe you can read, and I believe the rules of posting insist you not engage in personal attacks. Calling someone an "ignorant, ungrateful dog" proves true one of the golden rules of debate: When you're losing points, resort to name-calling. I'm sorry you chose to go down that pitiful path.

[Gumlegs]

I've seen interviews with a Japanese survivor of Hiroshima, who was *ahem* getting free medical services in this country. She quite frankly admitted that as a school girl at the time, she was being trained to use sticks to attack American soldiers.

Maybe your mother-in-law was out sick that day, or was someplace where they weren't doing that, but it was being done. And she would have been doing it whether or not she was "so inclined."