Posted on 04/30/2011 12:48:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) -- Political assassinations in Tokyo. Censorship and the stifling of dissent. A nation hungry for oil and other natural resources. Kimono-clad women in department stores and boarding street cars. A smiling Babe Ruth posing for photos with Japanese teenage baseball players while on tour with other American all-stars.
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Disgraceful.
This is an insult of the highest order. I don’t give a G-Damn what the F pre-War Japan looked like. There’s an American warship still sitting in the mud of Pearl Harbor with the remains of over 1,400 young Americans who never stopped being nineteen and the ‘’smiling faces of kimono-clad women’’ is the nation that put them there. Screw the ‘’smiling Japanese’’..
I agree, this IS disgusting! The Japanese of that time were SAVAGES, there IS NO “other side” to the story of WWII in the Pacific! IT WAS GOOD VERSUS EVIL, and THAT is THAT!!!
Can’t wait to see the exhibits in Japan showing other views of the Pacific War. Say a model of Nanking, an exhibit on Unit 731. Or how about the Bataan Death March. The Allied prisoners burned alive?
Hell, I’d settle for an admission of their guilt, and factual history books in their high schools!
I gather our leadership never heard of “The Rape of Nanking.”
The Japanese were egocentric monsters.
There is no “Japanese side” to the outrageous and cowardly sneak attack.
We should have stuck with Admiral Halsey’s plan;
“By the time this is over, the Japanese language will only be spoken in Hell!”
Excellent. I hope to muster as much emotion if I am ever in a similar situation.
Teddy Roosevelt's Secret Deal with Japan: An Interview with James Bradley
I guess these people have never been to the “Peace Museum” in Hiroshima. Their side of the story is that there were some disagreements, a little war broke out, and then America nuked Japan. When they discuss Unit 731 or Nanking (which troops from Hiroshima took part in) they pass them off as allegations that haven’t been proven.
Is there now a Japanese thinking that they were right then? This just legitimizes that way of thinking and it is alright to rape other lands in search for resources for home.
Or a tribute to Harry Truman for ending the war
Superman’s fault.
Leaving aside the question of whether it is appropriate to discuss the Russo-Japanese War during this trial, it was very much with the help of Britain and the United States that the war was carried out and was successful. At the time, the Japanese people felt grateful to those two nations.
Teddy Roosevelt was an imperialist and warmonger. His attitude was diametrically opposed to that advocated by our Founding Fathers.
That attitude is not unique to Japan. It's the way many great powers have behaved throughout history. It's the way Red China is behaving now, yet we created that situation by bestowing "most favored nation" status on China and transferring much of our manufacturing there. History is not as simple as some people think, and few nations are either villains or heroes.
My mom was ten years old living at Pearl Harbor during the attack. She got a good view of the Japanese as they strafed her house.
God Bless you for that. I’ll never forget looking in my local paper one day, around the first week of August a few years ago and here was a letter to the editor from some middle-aged peacenik, going on about how terrible it was that the United States dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how war is just so terrible and the United States is... well, you get the jist. This woman represented some peace group and she put her phone number in the letter. Short of the story is I called her and gave her such a ration of poop she never put her phone number in that paper again. I said to her ‘You’re making common cause with a nation of people who put over a thousand kids into the mud of Pearl Harbor and you’re complaining about Hiroshima?’’ I said “Listen Madame, if Japan had won the bloody war, would you have been happier?’ I said “Are you sorry my country won WW2’’? She said “It’s my country too’’. I said “You could have fooled me’’. Suffice to say she never wrote that stupid paper again.
Images of 1930s Japan reflecting: "Political assassinations in Tokyo. Censorship and the stifling of dissent. A nation hungry for oil and other natural resources. Kimono-clad women in department stores and boarding street cars. A smiling Babe Ruth posing for photos with Japanese teenage baseball players while on tour with other American all-stars."...{snip]..."clips from Japanese theater newsreels, including festive scenes of Ruth playing baseball during a tour.
Images of U.S. Japan relations honoring: "a broader, more in-depth view of the Sunday morning attack nearly 70 years ago." after the "passage of time and with " the efforts of Japanese pilots and American survivors" who reached "out to each other and overcome deeply ingrained bitterness.
The problem is not the material or the approach. The problem is it represents a different kind of museum; one that does not belong in a U.S. government museum with a mission to represent the tragedy of the Pearl Harbor attack.
The old museum "was more of a shrine than a place that analyzed a pivotal moment in 20th century history"
And a "shrine" is what a war memorial museum IS SUPPOSED TO BE.
The Marxist/Progressive "historians" from academia HAVE taken over this museum, in a manner like they attempted to do at Ground Zero in New York City.
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