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[tford(OFC)]

That's true Don, but who ever they were, they weren't bent on peace full intentions, Ray

No they were not my friend, the were "troopers" of their Country the same as our boy's were. War, (if you haven't seen it,) is a very nasty and terrifying thing to experience, they did their duty, and so did our boy's!

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[sigman2]

No they were not my friend, the were "troopers" of their Country the same as our boy's were. War, (if you haven't seen it,) is a very nasty and terrifying thing to experience, they did their duty, and so did our boy's!

tford (OFC)

I think the Japanese military went way beyond duty with the atrocities they committed.

Has anyone read "The Rape of Nanking"? This book should be required reading in high school history classes.

[Alfred]

I think the Japanese military went way beyond duty with the atrocities they committed.

Has anyone read "The Rape of Nanking"? This book should be required reading in high school history classes.

There was a documentary on this incident some years back. The thing about it that stands out most in my memory was a elderly japanese veteran who'd been a military surgeon recounting how thousands of Japanese soldiers had been so horrified by their own actions and what they had witnessed that they went into a sort of withdrawal and starved themselves to death rather than live with the shame. That was kept a closely guarded secret at the time, the families of the suicides were told they had died in battle.

A US officer present at a prewar parade gound told of a Jap officer beheading a soldier who'd missed a button on his tunic. They didn't miss a beat, the jap soldier just stepped forwards and bowed, and the officer took off his head without a blink.

A couple of month back I saw a Japanese film about the hardships of their soldiers in the last months of the war.
The main character was pretty sympathetic until he killed two elderly civilians over a smal bag of salt. Earlier he had killed a dog and showed remorse, he showed no remorse at all when he killed the old couple.