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The internment camps is a shameful chapter in U.S. history, but that is nothing, nothing compared to the complete lack of humanity on the part of the Imperial Japanese. The Japanese to this day don't teach their students about how they treated their prisoners. It isn't taught in their schools. We acknowledge our shameful acts much more than they do theirs.

I freely admit that the IJA committed many, many evil and distasteful atrocities. You will get no argument from me. Unlike you though, I am able to separate the criminal elements of the Japanese armed forces from the rest of the men who fought with honor and distinction.

I'm sure you don't judge all the the American armed forces by the criminal fire bombing of DRESDEN or Tokyo, right? I'm sure you don't judge all the the allied forces by the fact that over 1,000,000 German soldaten were allowed to die in POW camps in the year AFTER the war was over. Nor will me mention the fact that Eisenhower knowingly sent some 2,000,000 patriotic Russians and Ukrainians to the death when he handed them over to the evil Soviet armed forces at the end of the war (these Russian and Ukrainian men's only crime was to have surrendured to the Germans during the war). Eisenhower was told by his intelligence that these poor slavs would be killed, but that didn't stop him.

Don't lecture me on war crimes pal, our fecal matter stinks just like the rest. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Don't lecture me on war crimes pal...

You will never win the moral equivalence argument. You are beaten. You were beaten before you picked this fight. Now you're talking about the Allies. I guess you've run out of American "atrocities".

That didn't take long.

Furthermore, you can't narrow this sick mentality down to an incident or two, no matter how hard you try. It was rampant. And it was evil. And it was apparently sanctioned at high levels. Explain to me how a couple of bad apples resulted in what happened at Nanking. At Bataan (by some accounts, a decapitation every fifteen paces). And created a "kill all" order for POWs. And performed experimental surgery on downed pilots. And cannibalized pilots who had been shot down over Chi Chi Jima. And sliced Filipino women's babies from the womb. And on, and on, and on.

As I stated before, the Japanese have many things to take pride in. The conduct of their military in WWII is not one of those things, no matter how you try to point the finger elsewhere.

You've demonstrated your loathing for the United States here and on other threads (does "Stupid, stupid, stupid Americans" ring a bell? Yes, I saw your comment regarding the men who died on Iwo Jima). Evidently, you have some issues to work out.

I just wish you weren't doing it here.

In any case, I've got no time to converse with someone living on American soil who glorifies the death of American sailors. I've got better things to do. I'm through with you.

Is it an accident that you chose a Japanese military figure to honor rather than the Americans of the 442nd? If you wanted to honor the accomplishments of Americans of Japanese descent, why didn't you call yourself "Nisei", or "Go For Broke!" or maybe "Sadao Munemori". On, April 5, 1945 Sadao Munemori saved the lives of two other American soldiers by diving on a German grenade. He is the only Japanese American awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor during World War II. Of all the Japanese Americans whose exploits are worthy of recognition, but nooooooooooo, you had to go and pick an Imperial Japanese flyboy, for heaven's sake.

For more about Japanese Americans' contributions, click on theJapanese American National Museum.