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In reply to the discussion: Japan WWII 'comfort women' (sex slaves) were 'necessary' - Hashimoto [View all]csziggy
(34,189 posts)Dropping the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki - the Japanese have made sure we perpetuate that guilt. They have never apologized for Pearl harbor or the Bataan death march or the millions they tortured, enslaved, raped, and killed in China and the Philippines, but Americans that were never born and who would not have been born are still made to feel responsible for those who died in those two Japanese cities.
I will never feel guilt about the bombs being dropped on Japan. My father was serving on a submarine in the Pacific and would have been part of an invasion if that had been necessary. My mother was serving as a Navy Nurse in Hawaii and would have had to care for the injured who survived an invasion. While they never have talked about that aspect of the war, they also have not bought into the re-write of history that expunged the atrocities that the Japanese committed and the blame that has been placed on the US for those two bombs that brought a faster close to the war and saved millions of lives.