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Japan Apologizes for Bataan Death March
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| 5/30/09
| Vija Udenans
Posted on 05/31/2009 12:26:26 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
WOW - never thought I would see the day.
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posted on
05/31/2009 12:27:59 PM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Nemo me impune lacessit (Two terms for politicians, one in office, one in jail.))
To: mad_as_he$$
My thoughts, too: Japan admits there was a WWII and they were in it.
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posted on
05/31/2009 12:31:33 PM PDT
by
madison10
To: LibWhacker
Apologies, the latest fad, at least in some circles.
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posted on
05/31/2009 12:31:34 PM PDT
by
caver
(Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
To: LibWhacker
It is amazing the transformation of the Japanese culture from WWII until now. It is hard to imagine that the Japanese committed these atrocities after having spent time in Japan, because they are now such a peaceful nation. Hopefully the apology helps the survivors to achieve some closure, but something like Bataan is not easily forgotten or forgiven (takes a very special individual).
However, the Japanese are trying desperately to put WWII behind them and some of their actions have not been so appealing such as basically rewriting their history books to omit certain acts.
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posted on
05/31/2009 12:32:13 PM PDT
by
lt.america
(Looking for a bailout)
To: lt.america
Agree - they really need to close the books on WW2 (by telling the truth). They live a very nasty neighborhood and need to start getting prepped for the next war.
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posted on
05/31/2009 12:33:38 PM PDT
by
BobL
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To: LibWhacker
Interesting timing for me.
Yesterday, I just put up my uncles “Former POW” license plate in my garage.
He and his brother were both captured, one was forced on the march, one was not and later released.
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posted on
05/31/2009 12:33:46 PM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(Overproduction, one of the top five worries for the American farmer.)
To: LibWhacker
There's a lot of apology needed!
Check out the newest WORLD magazine and read one man's story......
..it is one of the most horrific, cruelest accounts of what happened on that march.
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posted on
05/31/2009 12:37:42 PM PDT
by
Guenevere
To: LibWhacker
I served with a Bataan Death March survivor, old Sarge had no use for the “Japs”.
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posted on
05/31/2009 12:37:57 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(31 shopping days to Graybeard58's 64th. b/day. Selah.)
To: Graybeard58
Yep, I knew one at the gym, a San Francisco Sheriff’s Deputy. He absolutely hated them. Can’t blame him after what he went through. He once told me that if they had been liberated a week or two later, he wouldn’t have made it.
To: LibWhacker; M. Espinola
Does not help my Uncle Herm. He not only survived the Bataan Death March -- he survived imprisonment in Japan.
He witnessed his fellow Americans being starved and butchered for sport. Herm was six feet tall and in incredible shape before the War. He came back from the Pacific weighing less than 100 pounds. The survivors of Japanese atrocities were forced to eat insects and rats and worse. The man was a True Hero and had the medals to prove it. Herm died in 2002.
He was a very astute investor and a great down-to-earth guy. Herm told me many times 'both political parties are corrupt.' Now I know he was 100% correct about politics.
To his dying day he refused to eat Japanese food, even in fine restaurants.
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posted on
05/31/2009 12:46:57 PM PDT
by
ex-Texan
(Ecclesiastes 5:10 - 20)
To: LibWhacker
My opinion after reading what they did in WW11 bombing them back to the wood plow would have been too good for them.
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posted on
05/31/2009 12:51:56 PM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
(Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
To: Graybeard58
One of the survivors, I only know him as Charlie, comes into the Lowe’s where I work every couple of weeks. He joined the Army straight out of high school and was assigned to the 31st Infantry Regiment in the Philippines just a few weeks before the war began. After surviving the march, he spent the rest of the war working in a copper mine in Korea.
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posted on
05/31/2009 12:52:16 PM PDT
by
Stonewall Jackson
(Put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry. - Oliver Cromwell)
To: LibWhacker
The Japanese have a long history of barbarism.
Reading of their history it’s hard to imagine people more sadistic than the nazi’s but the Japanese managed to surpass Germany.
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posted on
05/31/2009 12:52:21 PM PDT
by
Carley
(OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
To: All
BATAAN DEATH MARCH
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posted on
05/31/2009 12:53:25 PM PDT
by
Dubya
(Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:06:27 PM PDT
by
Awestruck
(Now if we can only get the rest of the "republican" leaders to stand up to the liberals.)
To: madison10
There was a war? There was a war?
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:09:20 PM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:11:02 PM PDT
by
VR-21
(The election of Barack Obama was a hate crime.)
To: Carley
...and the Chinese have probably been taking notes.
To: madison10
If you ever have a chance to read The Rape of Nanking you will know the depth of hatred China has for Japan.
Well earned hatred.
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posted on
05/31/2009 1:33:54 PM PDT
by
Carley
(OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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