Nov 11, 2019
10:01:49am
BlueBlood94 All-American
"Midway" ends with a tribute dedicating it to the American AND Japanese soldiers. Discussing it on KSL now, and lots of
negative backlash to this. The dedication at the end reads "This film is dedicated to the American and Japanese sailors who fought at Midway. The sea remembers its own."

Most have been very against it, though one Iraq War veteran supported it saying that the Japanese sailors were just soldiers fighting to get home to their own families and that now Japan is our ally. The military times gave me the movie a score of 0 out of 10 and used this dedication as part of their justification, basically pointing out the atrocities committed by the Japanese in WWII and that while they may be our ally now, we should not honor their role in WWII as the aggressors who began the fight and fought it with such heartless viciousness.

I'm surprised at the passion in many of the responses. I probably wouldn't have given it a second thought if I had seen the movie before hearing about this.
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