Posted on 05/27/2016 10:47:27 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
...So I crawled in the total darkness, and I got to the opening. And by the time I got there, the building was on fire. That meant most of the girls were burnt to death. Although that happened in the morning, it was already very dark, like twilight. And the two other girls managed to come out, and three of us looked around. And in the darkness, I could see some dark moving object approaching to me. They happened to be human beings shuffling from the center part of the city to where I was.
They just didn't look like human beings. I called them ghosts, ghost-like people because their hair was standing up. They were covered with blood and burned and bludgeoned and swollen, and the flesh was hanging from the bones. Parts of their bodies were missing, and some were carrying their own eyeballs in their hands. And as they collapsed, their stomach burst open, intestines stretching out. Everybody was slowly shuffling. Nobody was running. And the shouting for help. Nobody had that kind of physical and psychological strength left.
Well, we three girls were reluctantly in good shape. We could walk. We could carry. So we went to the nearby stream and washed off the blood in the dirt from the bodies. And when the darkness fell, we just sat on the hill, and all night we watched the entire city burn.
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I’m just waiting for Obama to issue that Executive Order abolishing all American nuclear weapons. I’m sure its on his “to-do” list.
Because they can’t. Culturally, they can’t. Losing to a mixed race bunch of round eyes destroyed much of what they hold dear.
I worked with a Japanese national for a while. He had very little knowledge of WWII, other than the Americans nuked the Home Islands and how horrible it was. Of course, there was an old vet who, gently, gave him an education.
By the end, he feared he could never go back to Japan. He had changed so much he was not the same anymore.
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All five of my uncles fought in WWII and their parents, along with most other parents, hoped their sons would be stationed in the European theater, rather than the Pacific, because the Japanese were so brutal and bloodthirsty. Only one of them fought in the Pacific. He was a Marine who battled through the islands and endured horrors that he could never discuss. He drank a lot after the war and died well before his time. The Japanese ruined lives during and after the war. They got off easy.
I have Japanese friends and acquiantances. They know what happened and some will talk about it. They also are quite humorous about their own culture (not related to war). Of course, with the exception of one, they live in NYC. Only one returns to Tokyo every year for months at a time. She’s a little uptight. I had a friend who had a fashion company called ‘Nips.’ This was in the un-PC 80s.
My dad was certainly glad the bombs were dropped. He was scheduled for the invasion. He was in the artillery.
I have no sympathy for imperial Japan.
Is he going to apologize to the Germans too, or are they too handy as an allegory for "white America?"
How ironic that the ultimate evil (Nazi Germany) partnered with an honorary Marxist-Leninist non-white "people's republic" in "the good war," half of which we supposedly should not have won.
And lest we forget, despite the fact that almost all of Hitler's victims were Europeans, he's been adopted as "Mr. Typical Average White Guy" by "indigenous" and "people of color" whose ancestors never had to tangle with him.
And as non-whites (and therefore as honorary Marxist-Leninist intellectuals) they'll never have to.
When I lived there in the late 80's, the most popular book was a rewrite of WWII into a glorious Japanese victory. It was hugely popular and was indicative of the culture's refusal to admit to their role in the destruction of WWII. Most of the Japanese I met and became friends with knew nothing of Japan's actions in the war and why that caused Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There were several times we went out to dinner and would have to leave the restaurant because someone (usually an elder) was cursing me out for using nuclear weapons on their country.
Lol, true! That'll come after they get rid of "racist, sexist" air conditioning.
Don't you just love the anarchistic, libertarian liberals and their dedication to keeping us all safe from the commandments of G-d??? [/sarcasm]
Part of this is the condescending attitude liberal westerners have towards Asians - who are seen a small, tiny-boned and somehow vulnerable against us big tough Yanks. I saw this throughout the Viet Nam War. Of course, all of these people are tough as boot leather and have deeply ingrained sexual sadism in their various cultures.
Did the monsters at Unplanned Non Parenthood learn from the Japs or are they a result of how far we have fallen?
Is that a rhetorical question?
No one in his company was upset when the bombs ended the war. To this day, he refuses to buy anything made in Japan.
The teller of this story was a 13 year old girl when she survived the bombing. Sorry, but I don’t think that 13 year old girls deserve having nuclear bombs dropped on them.
Her country as a whole, though, richly deserved it, and everything else that we did to them as payback for what they did to us and to a whole lot of other people.
And this is one of the sad things about the atomic bombings: innocent people had to suffer because of the evil deeds of their leaders. I do think it’s entirely possible to sympathize with her plight, while simultaneously understanding that it was something that had to be done, and something for which the United States need not feel the slightest amount of guilt.
Liberals are the biggest pushers of the "white man's burden" in history. We're supposed to divest ourselves of any and all traditional/supernaturalist beliefs so we can protect the traditional/supernaturalist beliefs of "indigenous pipples" (and moslems).
Liberals are terrorists when it comes to rednecks who reject Darwin but if someone were to try to teach Darwinism to an Eskimo he'd be at the World Court on charges of cultural genocide within about ten minutes. After all, Darwin is a dead white European male and Western science and rationalism are alien and foreign to the sweet little child-like dears who actually belong on this planet.
To balance things out, however, I would like to note that there was at one time an "anti-Japanese" ideology among the far-Left in Japan that makes American Leftist self-hatred seem small by comparison. They actually considered being Japanese as inherently evil and irreformable, and there was nothing to do but die out. There was a similar far Left self-hatred in Germany that actually supported (or perhaps still supports) America and Israel.
Yeah, my parents weren’t too happy when I had a Japanese boyfriend, lol.
It seems there are a few points of comparison between Japan in WWII and earlier years and a certain culture today. Namely Japan had an intertwined religion and ruling culture with horrible racism towards the rest of Asia and the West. The Chinese and other Asians were not considered real humans.
Sound familiar to anyone today?
One interesting point is the Germans, frightful as they were during WWII, have pretty well reconciled with their former enemies. The Japs, OTOH, have never really reconciled with the Chinese, on whom their entire army perpetrated probably the most unspeakable war crimes in history, most of them after the Chinese victims had been defeated and just wanted to be left alone. IOW, after any reasonable military justification for such horrors had ended. If any people ever earned Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was the Imperial Japs.
The only thing special about the A-Bomb is that it was a single plane delivering a big bang! The Fire Bombings of Tokyo and Dresden were equally horrific in their effect but just needed more aircraft to carry out.
There are few of the WW2 Allied soldiers/sailors/airmen who doubted that many lives were saved in A-Bombing Hiroshima & Nagasaki. It gave the Japanese Emperor and his advisors an ‘out’ to over-rule the Bushido-crazed militarists who hoped to stalemate a clear end to the Pacific War and thus negotiate a better (for them) surrender.
The bloodbath that was Okinawa was a foretaste of what an invasion of the ‘Home Islands’ would have cost in time, lives and effort. The Japanese militarists were convinced that waves of women and children smothering the Allied beachheads while the Japanese soldiers killed from dug-in positions would so sicken the war-weary Allied Nations as to force them to do something other than invading more than once.
Before someone scoffs at the idea of women and children being so dangerous, remember Vietnam and what behaviors they were capable of then. Revisionist history is endlessly critical of the US and the Allies but also endlessly optimistic of what something else could have done. I’m not convinced!
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