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Jan 28, 2023
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OU Cougar
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Yeah. Just comparing our actual US homeland experience to theirs
There were plenty of atrocities Japan deserved punishment for all over
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Try to imagine what happens to your family if you lived in Japan 1944-‘45
OU Cougar
1/28/23 12:43pm
Don't attack America.
wildlandfireguy
1/28/23 12:44pm
Yep. Literally paid back 1000 fold for Pearl Harbor
OU Cougar
1/28/23 12:46pm
Pearl Harbor was only one in a long line of atrocities committed by the Japanese
Junior Deputy
1/28/23 12:54pm
Agree that a philosophy that everyone else exists to serve your nation as slaves
OU Cougar
1/28/23 1:00pm
Not just Pearl Harbor. They declared war on the United States, the first part of which was a sneak attack on Hawaii, but
mvtoro
1/28/23 1:02pm
You know they attacked our troops and allies throughout the Pacific on the same day, right?
2FarGone
1/28/23 1:14pm
Yeah. Just comparing our actual US homeland experience to theirs
OU Cougar
1/28/23 1:16pm
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TrackCoug
1/28/23 12:55pm
Plus the Japanese were vicious. This goes both ways
TNT
1/28/23 1:02pm
They're in the minority. Japan is a very close ally and most Japanese love US
Schultz is back
1/28/23 1:06pm
The mutual respect between Americans and Japanese, generally, is an incredible
shoganai
1/28/23 1:13pm
Mostly due to how Tuman and MacArthur ran postwar Japan.
Orem58thBall
1/28/23 3:04pm
The Japanese would have burned America to the ground and enslaved everyone.
demon_llama
1/28/23 1:06pm
To be fair, there was a different kind of animosity between Japan and China
FabLabCougar
1/28/23 1:10pm
This is why us Americans have no margin for error
OU Cougar
1/28/23 1:10pm
Be professional but have a plan to kill everyone in the room.
demon_llama
1/28/23 1:11pm
Actually, geopolitically we have immense margins of error (the built in
J. Walter Weatherman
1/28/23 1:19pm
Peace through superior firepower.
valcorger
1/28/23 2:48pm
China, Japan, and Korea have spent millennia conquering each other
Schultz is back
1/28/23 1:20pm
Forgave??? Do you know they actually ate their POWs in the Philippines?
2FarGone
1/28/23 1:20pm
All this is true. But I don't think it's the point of the OP. I believe he's
777
1/28/23 1:28pm
That random farmer was part of the 28MM strong civilian defense force
2FarGone
1/28/23 1:34pm
Meh...I don't think every civilian was a fault. Change the OP to the perspective
777
1/28/23 1:42pm
Have read extensively on WWII/Japan and never read of Tokyo being on "the list"
BlueInfidel
1/29/23 5:39am
My grandparents (WWII vets) were very untrusting of the Japanese after the war
stenso
1/28/23 1:52pm
My grandpa flew B-29s after Pearl. My other grandpa was very high up in the
yellowboy
1/28/23 1:58pm
Read Unbroken and you'll have a different opinion of who should forgive who.
Tmoney1969
1/28/23 1:59pm
So my mom was born in 42. To this day if you say anything bad about Hirohito
yellowboy
1/28/23 2:07pm
RE: Read Unbroken and you'll have a different opinion of who should forgive who.
wislim
1/28/23 3:51pm
Thanks...gonna have to add some books to my library!
Tmoney1969
1/28/23 4:22pm
My wife’s parents did and what you said is not true. Half were not homeless.
valleus
1/28/23 2:04pm
The loss kick-started their demographic death spiral
RevolutionDeathsquad
1/28/23 2:11pm
This is inaccurate. No historian would ever make that statement.
Schultz is back
1/28/23 4:56pm
RE: Try to imagine what happens to your family if you lived in Japan
OriginalBlue
1/28/23 4:34pm
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