You really don't see things both ways do you when you post? Because anyone can easily turn all of that around on you, what you just said. Sad to say, but it happens in war. You're just too stupid to see both sides of a story.
You are right, I guess I don't see things both ways. My Dad served in the US Army in WWII. He absolutely hated the Japanese and Germans, and wanted them dead. He never even wanted to buy any products from either country for the rest of his life, his feelings from the war were so strong. Do you think that he would ever consider buying a Sony TV when he could instead buy a RCA? Or buy a Toyota or Honda, when he could instead buy a Ford or Chevy? I guess that all of the US government's Anti-Nazi and Anti-Japanese propaganda during the war affected many in my parent's generation.
War breeds very intense feelings. And the man who raised me had low opinions of the Japanese and Germans. He blamed them for the war, and felt that they were the bad guys, and that America stood for defending freedom and justice in the world. My mother even felt strongly that the Japanese students that she personally knew from her high school deserved to be imprisoned in internment camps during the war. Even long after the war, she felt no sympathy at all for them having all of their property and possessions confiscated, and spending years in detention camps. That is the way that most people felt back then. So as I grew up, those were the viewpoints about the war that were expressed to me. And after all, God commands us to honor our parents. So if you want me to condemn or criticize them in any way now that they are gone, well, I will clearly not do that.
My feelings certainly are not anywhere close to what my father's were when he was alive. He really grumbled about me buying Japanese cars, and so many other products from Japan. And I feel that the societies in both Germany and Japan were greatly transformed by the war. If anything, they are now probably among the most pacifistic and moral peoples on earth. Their cultures are now practically 180 degrees opposite from what they were like during WWII.
I can respect Rall for his incredible skills and bravery as a combat pilot. But as far as paying homage to him or mourning his loss, I really don't feel that at all.
For after all, he was America's enemy.
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