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Japan - True feelings?
I think the tradegy in Japan is horrendous as many have said on these pages. May I share a comment with you made by another (which I happen not to agree with but understand)
He is a Scot who was captured by the Japanese in WWII and badly starved and tortured. He survived but has always hated them for what they did to him as a man. In reespect to recent natural events he said "I was captured by the Japs in the war and was beaten, starved and tortured. They hit me hard and broke my legs and punched me so hard my stomach has never recovered. At my lowest darkest days I used to think where are you Lord when I need you most. Now I know".
Tragic is it not?
He is a Scot who was captured by the Japanese in WWII and badly starved and tortured. He survived but has always hated them for what they did to him as a man. In reespect to recent natural events he said "I was captured by the Japs in the war and was beaten, starved and tortured. They hit me hard and broke my legs and punched me so hard my stomach has never recovered. At my lowest darkest days I used to think where are you Lord when I need you most. Now I know".
Tragic is it not?
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Some in Japan have asserted that what is being demanded is that the Japanese Prime Minister or the Emperor perform dogeza, in which an individual kneels and bows his head to the ground—a high form of apology in East Asian societies that Japan appears unwilling to do.[97] Some point to an act by West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who knelt at a...
Some in Japan have asserted that what is being demanded is that the Japanese Prime Minister or the Emperor perform dogeza, in which an individual kneels and bows his head to the ground—a high form of apology in East Asian societies that Japan appears unwilling to do.[97] Some point to an act by West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who knelt at a...
17:58 Sun 13th Mar 2011
I think my father would have felt the same, he was a Gordon Highlander and was a POW in Burma, he also suffered very badly, he was 6'2 and weighed 6 1/2 stone when he was released.
But what has happened in Japan is truly awful, the people who have died did not torture my father or your friend, we surley should forgive but never forget.
But what has happened in Japan is truly awful, the people who have died did not torture my father or your friend, we surley should forgive but never forget.
My late Dad would have understood that. He used to express resentment of Japan because of their behaviour in the war, but he managed to hive that off from the Japanese people who he met in the course of his job and who he treated like everyone else. I know he would feel for the children in such a disaster.
As an atheist I don't believe in divine intervention either in the short or long term, but if a god did exist what is the point of long term retribution . Most of those people who carried those atrocities are dead. I lived throughout WW II and met many victims of the Japs . I neither forget nor forgive. They got away with it , end of story.
All `tho` the Japs appear to now be our friends in so much as we can call them friends, I wonder if many of them would still behave the same as they did in WW2, going by their history of wars. I still think they have inborn tendencys to evil if not kept in check by the rest of the world. Sorry, but that`s my personal opinion. I can`t forget the past like others can.
Its a tricky one this, especially seeing as the tragic events are a natural disasterand will have affected the lives of many innocents, mostly who are not from the generation of WW2.. But many of an older generation will remember the cruelty and seemingly generic evil tendancies of the Japaneese during WW2. So on anindividual level, should we blame this guy for feeling how he does?
As a nation should we deny them help? Should the USA remember Pearl Harbour before offering assistance?
As a nation should we deny them help? Should the USA remember Pearl Harbour before offering assistance?
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