"My Father"

Since history is no longer taught or valued let me explain this photo. Above is an image of a Japanese teacher, and students in 1940 at a Tokyo secondary school. They are celebrating Japan's signing on to the "Pact of Steel". Known generally as the Axis. It is these nations Germany Japan, and Italy that our father's, and grand father's fought in WW2. If they the "Axis" had won we'd now be in a murderous dark age,...yeah one worse than now.

To my point.

I'm seeing videos, and posts about the commemoration of the nuclear bombing of Japan at the end of WW2. 1945. This is good we 'should' remember, but we should be remembering more. These commemorations are usually put in terms of how evil America is, and how innocent the Japanese were. The Japanese murdered 26 million+ people in Asia during WW2. They were allied to the German Nazis via the Axis. They were literally the Nazis of Asia.

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Unlike the Germans they have never acknowledged the mega death they committed. It is not in their children's school lessons. China, and Asia have strained ties with them because of this. As for the Bombs. One would have done it. The second was to warn Russia. The 'second' viewed dispassionately generations later was the crime.

The "one" saved my father uncles, and the fathers uncles of most boomers. Since they would have died. It was estimated at the time a million+ allied dead, and wounded from the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands.

My dad, and the fathers, and uncles of nearly every one that I grew up with would have been killed on the beaches of Japan during the Invasion. However let's say you don't give a fuck about that, and just want to condemn America for the nukes...fine.

However give a thought to the 26 MILLIONS+ dead at Imperial Japanese hands, and your fathers or grandfathers whose bones would be beneath Japanese soil today...btw you would 'never' have been born.

Granted some ideologically committed as I've experienced wouldn't care about that either. However for the few that do care understand what a complex, and evil thing war is, ...no good guys.

...none. 

General Lemay who directed the firing bombing of Japan. H

I'm seeing videos, and posts about the commemoration of the nuclear bombing of Japan at the end of WW2. This is good we 'should' remember, but we should be remembering more. These commemorations are usually put in terms of how evil America is, and how innocent the Japanese were.

The Japanese murdered 26 million+ people in Asia during ww2. They were allied to the Nazis. Were literally the Nazis of Asia.

https://dose.com/the-asian-holocaust-killed-twice-as-many-p…

They have never acknowledged the mega death they committed in their schools. China, and Asia have strained ties with them because of this. As for the Bombs. One would have done it. The second was to warn Russia. The 'second' viewed dispassionately generations later was the crime.

The "one" saved my father uncles, and the fathers uncles of most boomers. Since they would have died. It was estimated at the time a million allied dead, and wounded from the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands.

My dad, and the fathers of nearly every one that I grew up with would have been killed on the beaches of Japan during the Invasion.

However let's say you don't give a fuck about that, and just want to condemn America for the nukes...fine.

However give a thought to the 26 MILLIONS+ dead at Imperial Japanese hands, and your fathers or grandfathers whose bones would be beneath Japanese soil today...btw you would 'never' have been born.

Granted some as I've experienced wouldn't care about that either. However for the few that do care understand what a complex evil thing war is...no good guys.

...none.

General Lemay who commanded the fire bombing of Japanese cities  himself said, "...if we had lost the war we'd have certainly been tried as war criminals."

Everybody was a murderer.

Everybody.

It was just a matter of degree.