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Posted: 1/9/2005 1:58:50 PM EDT

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Any person who lived through the horrors described herein and STILL be able to forgive the Japanese is a far better person than I....
I guess that it is why he said "Strange as it must seem to some of you...."!!!

Absolutely. Believe me, I am in awe of his ability to forgive.

Like I said: better man than I.....

Posted: 1/9/2005 3:01:39 PM EDT

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But vito we also took the head of 731 in and gave him amnesty for all the info and data he had collected. A lot of our biological weapons research began with him. Our space program is a direct result of getting VonBraun. (sp).

True but the difference is we didn't shame ourselves with German war criminals.

Von Braun was guilty at MOST of using slave labor but so was Mercedes. He hardly qualified at a war criminal. Now we did overlook the Nazi "association" of many scientists but that is much different from working with the scientists from 731.

Posted: 1/9/2005 3:02:32 PM EDT

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Interesting fact.

All of the purple hearts in todays inventory of decorations are ALL 1945 production. They were made in anticipation of their need for the US invasion of mainland Japan. We still haven't handed them all out yet despite all the military conflicts since 1945.

Tell THAT to the next person who says we shouldn't have dropped the bombs.

Jesus! Are you SERIOUS?

I am serious.

Posted: 1/9/2005 3:04:50 PM EDT

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Any person who lived through the horrors described herein and STILL be able to forgive the Japanese is a far better person than I....

Don't think you will find many.

A few guys from Pearl have forgiven Navy pilots but I don't think any POWs are terribly fond of the Japanese. I for one will never blame them.

I may think differently, but I will never blame them.

Posted: 1/10/2005 7:48:19 AM EDT

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My Father fought in the South Pacific from about March, 1942, until the surrender in September, 1945.

He was in New Guinea for most of 1942 and 1943, then was in the Philippines in 1944 and 1945.

He had no love whatsoever for the Japanese due to the barbaric things that he saw had been done in the areas in which the Imperial Japanese Army had operated.

Later, he helped an entire Filipino family who he had befriended in Manilla over to the United States by arranging for the father to work on the ranch on which he was the foreman, just South of Fort Worth, Texas!

I think my father wore more of those Filipino shirts that were so popular back in the 1950s more than any other shirt style around. He clearly identified the Filipino people as folks who could be trusted and respected.

At my father's funeral in 1977, in Shreveport, Louisiana, about 20 members of that family attended.

And the old father of that family, a man I knew simply as 'Uncle Pete', cried almost as loudly as I did!

So, yeah, I have no great love for the Japanese people of that period, at all.

Eric The(AndEvenThoughI'mGerman,IAin'tMuchFondOfGermansOfThatDayEither)Hun

My father was also on New Guinea, and went to Leyte (Phillipines) from there. In another thread, I have posted pictures of a Japanese Dog Tag and Canteen he sent home.
Was your dad Army? From Leyte my father went on to Okinawa, where he was wounded.

Posted: 1/10/2005 7:52:57 AM EDT

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Any person who lived through the horrors described herein and STILL be able to forgive the Japanese is a far better person than I....

Don't think you will find many.

A few guys from Pearl have forgiven Navy pilots but I don't think any POWs are terribly fond of the Japanese. I for one will never blame them.

I may think differently, but I will never blame them.

Me neither.....

Posted: 1/10/2005 8:01:44 AM EDT

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Post from ryann -

My father was also on New Guinea, and went to Leyte (Phillipines) from there. In another thread, I have posted pictures of a Japanese Dog Tag and Canteen he sent home.

Wow! That's really interesting to find out!

Same trip my father took!

Was your dad Army? From Leyte my father went on to Okinawa, where he was wounded.

Yep, my father was Army!

He stayed in Occupied Japan for about 9 months following the War and then returned home to Texas, and Texas A&M University, just in time to meet my mother at the Aggie Bonfire in November, 1947!

Thank God they met!

Or I wouldn't be writing this today.

Eric The(Serendipitous)Hun

Posted: 1/10/2005 8:04:23 AM EDT

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Just as an aside, what was the reason for not bombing, say, Tokyo? Was it to preserve a government with which to negotiate, or some other reason?

We did bomb Tokyo. The fire bombing did extensive damage. In fact, IIRC more died in the fire bombing there then from either atomic bomb.

Posted: 1/10/2005 8:06:21 AM EDT

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Just as an aside, what was the reason for not bombing, say, Tokyo? Was it to preserve a government with which to negotiate, or some other reason?

We did bomb Tokyo. The fire bombing did extensive damage. In fact, IIRC more died in the fire bombing there then from either atomic bomb.

I know. I should have said NUKE Tokyo....

Posted: 1/10/2005 9:27:27 AM EDT

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Eric,

My Dad was dismounted from the horse cav in Kansas in '43 and sent to the Pacific. His records were destroyed in the St. Louis fire. He died in '70. Dad never spoke of his experiences in the war. I never heard him say a bad thing about anyone in his entire life. However, if one of us had even thought of buying a Jap car, I imagine Dad would have stepped in.

My brother Tom (named after Dad) thinks that every Nazi and every Jap serviceman should have been shot. My brother hates bullies.

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