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Again, obviously you can't stand the fact that some cultures put value on self-sacrifice and bravery than other cutltures do.

The self-sacrifice and bravery of Japanese culture really shines through in this relatively innocuous photo of Allies in a Japanese POW camp.

I have battled your form of racism for many, many years. To you, it is an embarassment that it the most decorated American fighting unit in the entire war was a JAPANESE unit, the 442 CRT.

Were they Japanese or Americans? Hmmmmmm? The 442nd were Americans of Japanese descent fighting in Europe.

Hah! First you imprison them and their famlies, take away all their private possessions (talk about blatant racism run rampant in the supposedly "democratic" United States) and than they have to show your all-white units how to fight! I won't mention the cover-up the white US Army spent over the next 50 years trying to hide the truth about the brave men of the 442nd. Some groups are heidonistic and others aren't: deal with it.

See picture above.

Were they Japanese or Americans? Hmmmmmm? The 442nd were Americans of Japanese descent fighting in Europe.

A little history leesson for you: While they may have been U.S. citizens the United States army, government and people saw them not as citizens of this great nation, but as enemy aliens. That is why the violated their civil rights like no other group has had done to them in this last century. As bad as the blacks had it in the South during the years of Jim Crowe they were never THROWN INTO A CONCENTRATION CAMP.

Just because their ancestors were Japanese we committed unspeakable crimes against them, regardless of the fact they were US citizens. Shame on you!

Horrible picture. If it were an isolated situation, as bad as it was, it would be one thing - but it's not.

You know, POWs held in the United States were given plenty to eat. Several of them actually stayed here. In contrast, the POWs held by the Japanese at Cabanatuan were given weevil-infested rice, and fought over rats when they were lucky enough to catch one that had made its way into the camp. They would fight over them, and eat them bones and all.

That is, if the prisoner wasn't gutted and pushed into a slit-trench full of human waste before dinnertime.