Unless you have lost someone you cared about in it, family member or some such, I really don't want to hear one bit about Pearl Harbor. LET IT GO
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War isn't fair. War sucks. But we didn't start this one.
And I have long respected you and your opinion; on this subject, we will have to agree to disagree. Because I have no problems with remembering the soldiers who lost their lives in the attack.
No it isn't fair, and yes it does suck, but it has been 68 years and we far repaid the debt. I feel sorry for the families that lost ones they cared for, but at least they were soldiers. The ones we killed weren't.
It isn't so much the remembering the soldiers that upsets me. It's the anger that people still carry over it, as if we still have to do something about it. The people who still curse the Japanese for it even though we killed a hundredfold more of them. I am ashamed of our people and our reactions to this. 68 years later, a hundredfold more of our 'enemies' dead than us, and we still hold this grudge. Still.
That's what upsets me. We tell kids all the time to let things go, not let it bother them, to forgive and forget.
I don't think we'd ever forget, but it's time to let the grudge go. We are none of us without sin, so to speak.
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And I have long respected you and your opinion; on this subject, we will have to agree to disagree. Because I have no problems with remembering the soldiers who lost their lives in the attack.
Also, ask the Chinese what they thought. Especially in comparison to the Nanking Massacre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
I'm sorry. There is a reason why they say War is Hell.
I suspect that War makes Hell look like Club Med.
Which, I suppose is why it is to be avoided if possible, or finished quickly and decisively if not.
May the souls and families of all those who died during those times find peace.
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It isn't so much the remembering the soldiers that upsets me. It's the anger that people still carry over it, as if we still have to do something about it. The people who still curse the Japanese for it even though we killed a hundredfold more of them. I am ashamed of our people and our reactions to this. 68 years later, a hundredfold more of our 'enemies' dead than us, and we still hold this grudge. Still.
That's what upsets me. We tell kids all the time to let things go, not let it bother them, to forgive and forget.
I don't think we'd ever forget, but it's time to let the grudge go. We are none of us without sin, so to speak.
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