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Author: fiddler crabbyfiddler crabby Date: Sep 14, 2007 14:10
In article bignews9.bellsouth.net>,
kentfinn@bellsouth.net says...
> Almost 66 years ago. Most likely those who committed those attrocities are
> dead now, either during the war or from the passage of time. The youngest
> would be at least 82 or 83. You going to pass down that hatred like the
> Catholics and Protestants in Ireland or the Sunnis/Shittes/Jews/Christens in
> the Middle East. We all seen how well that works. People killing other
> people of reasons lost in the mists of the past.
>
> I told my step-father that and he used words that only you and maxo use
> here, but he had reason. He was a B29 radar operator in the Pacific
> Theater. He had friends killed and was shot at by "the yellow bastards" (as
> he put it) in Zeroes. Unless you a lot older than I think you are, the
> emotional component should not be there, at least if you're logical.
My father was a radarman on a destroyer in the Pacific during the worst
years of the war. He saw Japanese pilots trying to crash their planes
directly into his ship.
Twenty years later, in the 1960s, when we were living on base, our next
door neighbor was a Japanese woman who'd been living with her parents in
Japan during WWII. After the war, she married an American sailor.
She and her husband became close friends of my parents, and I still
remember playing with their three kids.
I never heard my father say anything bad about the Japanese, or about
any of the other countries the US went to war against.
And he loves my Honda Civic :)
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