In a forum some years back, an Australian woman went off on me about the US US military.
I replied “If it wasn’t for the US in WW2, your childhood would have been spent growing up in a Japanese brothel. You’re welcome.”
Well, at least many of them made for memorable times with the Marines and sailors who visited there during the war...
“In a forum some years back, an Australian woman went off on me about the US US military.”
An Australian friend once told me that during the war years, her nightly devotional included a prayer that the Japanese not invade Australia. One might say that “prayers went up and blessings came down”.